Whoever loves God must also love his brother. (1 Jn 4:19-5:4)
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/010826.cfm
Today is my birthday. I think of my mother, Norma Torp Boyd. Mom wanted grandkids, but I was an only child and a Catholic priest. But Mom got her grandkids after all: every infant I baptized, every child who made their First Communion, every young person confirmed, every couple I married, every confession I heard, every sick person I anointed, every person I blessed, every soul entrusted to my care in all the parishes where I served, every person I walked alongside in my ministry. They are all hers. The promise made to Abraham is fulfilled in my mom: she has descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky. https://youtu.be/5TVrD0nBE4M?si=KP8VZ-2PwPpW3wuy
These reflections are a result of more than 40 years of ministry as a Roman Catholic priest. Most of these years I spent in the Diocese of Charlotte which covers Western North Carolina. Now I am retired, and live in Medellín, Colombia where I continue to serve as a priest in the Archdiocese of Medellín.
Thursday after Epiphany, January 8
