25 years of serving with the People of God

On Monday - the 21st, I celebrated 25 years of ordained priesthood. On Sunday, I was presiding at the 10am mass at Assumption Cathedral and I reflected that 25 years ago, as a newly ordained priest, others often asked me - Why did I become a priest? Now no one asks me that question. Rather I ask myself - Why am I a priest? I can say that I love what I do, that I found my little corner, that I am making my contribution to the world and making a difference but it goes much deeper than that. It goes to my seminal story of faith, to who I am in my deepest reality. This is the same for any of us. It is about knowing our story and seeing where God is and I believe that we most easily and succinctly see God where we are most vulnerable. It is in our vulnerability that God is so with us, so really present to us. In knowing this, we become who we are.