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.

Tuesday, Week II, Easter

The community of believers was of one heart and mind. (Acts 4:32-37)
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“Come, my friends, let us be of one heart and one mind.” Almost 50 years ago when I was in seminary we had a class retreat with the spiritual writer, Father Ed Hays. He had spent a week in prayer at Gethsemani Abbey preparing himself for our retreat. He used this phrase as the centering prayer of our time together. He held up a copy of the New Testament and told us, “This is our instruction manual.”