Featured Homily

rites of passage

Spring is in the air and summer is fast approaching. And with the changing of the seasons comes the annual celebration of high school and college graduation ceremonies as young men and women charge off to meet the challenges of the future with a buoyant confidence we parents and grandparents now look back on with nostalgia. It seems only yesterday that we too were racing off to university and career with vigor and resolve. These annual rites of passage have become more and more bittersweet as I see children who weren't even in GOYA when we first arrived in Denver now graduating from college and (alas!) moving away! Such is the flow of time!

And our young adults must now confront the likelihood that their generation may be the first in many decades not essentially assured of doing "better" than the ones that preceded them. A stagnant job market, a global recession, and multi-trillion dollar bailouts of industries deemed "too big to fail" (with apologies to the tattered remnants of anti-trust laws once designed to prevent such contingencies) make the mountain our children must climb to establish themselves in their careers markedly steeper than in the recent past. Added to this is the real underlying cause behind these economic travails which is a poverty of spirit and a woeful disregard for the life in Christ made available to us through His life-giving Passion and Resurrection...

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