These reflections are a result of more than 40 years of ministry as a Roman Catholic priest. Most of these years I spent in the Diocese of Charlotte which covers Western North Carolina. Now I am retired, and live in Medellín, Colombia where I continue to serve as a priest in the Archdiocese of Medellín.

Monday, Week XIV, Ordinary Time

He called the site Bethel,
Jacob then made this vow: 
“This stone that I have set up as a memorial stone shall be God’s abode.” (Gen 28:10-22a)

Bethel means “house of God.” My grandmother’s family members are buried at Bethel Cemetery in the Mount Olivet Community of Leavenworth County, Kansas. Today’s picture is of my grandmother and her brother visiting their graves in the Bethel Cemetery, "the house of God."