Vocations Are Born In Prayer And From

Lord, With So Much Violence In Iraq, May We Persevere In Our Prayer And Generosity.

We Are Impatient, Anxious To See The Whole Picture, But God Lets Us See Things Slowly, Quietly.

To Protect Creation, To Protect Every Man And Every Woman, To Look Upon Them With Tenderness And Love Is To Open Up A Horizon Of Hope.

One Cannot Offend, Make War, Kill In The Name Of One's Own Religion, That Is, In The Name Of God.

The Pace Of Consumption, Waste And Environmental Change Has So Stretched The Planet's Capacity That Our Contemporary Lifestyle, Unsustainable As It Is, Can Only Precipitate Catastrophes, Such As Those Which Even Now Periodically Occur In Different Areas Of The World ... We Need To Reflect On Our Accountability Before Those Who Will Have To Endure The Dire Consequences.