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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.
Faith is the realization of what is hoped for
and evidence of things not seen.
(Heb 11:1-2,8-19)
“Who then is this whom even wind and sea obey?”
(Mk 4:35-41)
We begin one of the most beautiful sections of the Letter to the Hebrews . . . the heroes and she-roes of faith. Mark’s gospel shows the disciples as being a bit lacking in faith. As our scripture professor in seminary said of this passage: “They don’t know who Jesus is—and he just calmed the wind and the sea—what dummies!”
