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.

SATURDAY, WEEK XXVII, ORDINARY TIME

For all of you who were baptized into Christ
have clothed yourselves with Christ.
There is neither Jew nor Greek,
there is neither slave nor free person,
there is not male and female;
for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
(Gal 3:27-28)

To live the grace of our baptism is very radical. According to Saint Paul it means that in the Christian community we live without “walls” —the walls that divide the church into clergy/laity, male/female. But of course, we clergy types would be the first to object!