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.

FRIDAY, WEEK V, ORDINARY TIME

When they heard the sound of the LORD God moving about in the garden
at the breezy time of the day,
the man and his wife hid themselves from the LORD God
among the trees of the garden.
(Gen 3:1-8)

Much ink has been spilt on this passage and some church people have argued that the woman is to blame for all the ills that followed. But I prefer the Exultet from the Easter Vigil: “O happy fault, O necessary sin of Adam, which gained for us so great a redeemer! (previous translation)”