On July 1st, a knight arrives from the Village Land to the north and its province of the Bluenose. He was born during the first year of St. John XXIII (Good Pope John)’s pontificate; his parents were from the Land of Lincoln. His mother Mary was a captain in the Salvation Army and his father William a salesman and Catholic. They gave him an appreciation of the Holy Scripture and a living faith in the world.
Educated in the Jesuit and Augustinian traditions, he is dedicated to truth, freedom, justice, and love in the pursuit of peace. He struggles daily to put on the full armor of God – loins girded with truth, the breastplate of righteousness, feet shod for the Gospel of peace; he takes up the shield of faith, the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit – Ephesians 6:10-17.
This Wednesday, he invites you to be a voice for the poor and vulnerable. We all have been given “the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good” – 1 Corinthians 12:7.
The horn has sounded and the call will be answered.
The journey begins Wednesday.
Peace, John