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.

Wednesday, Week XXX, Ordinary Time

And people will come from the east and the west
and from the north and the south
and will recline at table in the Kingdom of God. (Lk 13:22-30).

Those who want a smaller, purer church are bound to be disappointed with Jesus who invites just anyone to sit at table in the Kingdom of God.

I’m not from here... I’m not from there
I have neither past nor future.
and being happy is the color of my identity.
No Soy de Aquí, ni soy de allá--Facundo Cabral, 1970.