I wanted to talk about excitement and adventure. What better way to spark interest in Christ’s mountaintop Transfiguration? The Holy Spirit had other plans.
The farmhouse stands proud atop a slight hill just north of a small village in west-central Ohio. It has sheltered descendants of the same family for over 150 years.
The Word of God does more than echo within our minds and souls, it resounds within forests and stadiums, rumbles like traffic amid sky-scrapers and apartment buildings. It forms farms from the soil of the earth and assembles factories from the labor of workers.
The elderly woman praying a rosary in the front pew of church? Her daughter is married to Ernest Hemingway’s son. The district judge who serves on the pastoral council? He was General Schwarzkopf’s driver during the first Iraq war.