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As we honor Saint John Bosco today, we are invited to ask: Who feels blessed in our communities – fortunate to be loved by God, fortunate to love as we have been loved?

Tonight’s liturgy presents us with parallels between David and St. Agnes and between David and Agnes and ourselves. 

Together we shall march, just as Martin Luther King, Jr., marched. Together we shall march into a future full of hope. Together we shall stand, courageously and peacefully, for justice.

In a nutshell, here how today’s Scriptures illuminate your pastor’s ministry: In some respects, he is to be like Isaiah the prophet; in others, like John the Baptist; and most importantly of all, he is to be like Jesus.

In a nutshell, here how tonight’s Scriptures illuminate your pastor’s ministry: In some respects, he is to be like Isaiah the prophet; in other respects, like John the Baptist; and most importantly of all, he is to be like Jesus.

On the day of our Baptism, we too were bathed in the radiance of God’s Triune life and love. Put another way, through Baptism God – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit – began to dwell in us.

I pray that the time you are spending in discernment will bear good fruit and, yes, I pray that many of you will someday become the priests that Jesus wants and needs to gather in his harvest.

When our search for God leads us to the Incarnate Word, charity enters our heart, and with it a yearning, not to give the Lord gold or frankincense or myrrh, but to give him our very selves, thus fulfilling the deepest longings of our hearts.

If there is one resolution we should make today, let it be that we are continually made new in Christ, that our re-birth at the font of baptism is renewed, purified, and strengthened by sharing in the forgiveness Christ won for us on the Cross, and by plunging deeply into the mysteries the Church re-presents for us at the behest of Mary and in the power of the Holy Spirit.

If we keep in mind what hope truly is, I think we will see how the Holy Family exemplifies the enduring and authentic hope that is essential to the Christian vocation of marriage and family life.