Welcome to The Light, your quiet moment of reflection in the middle of the day.
On this Thirty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time, Jenny Kraska invites us to sit with the parable of the talents — not merely as a lesson in stewardship, but as a question about what we do with the gifts we are given, however small, however quietly they arrive in us.
From that interior question, we travel outward — high into the Andes mountains, where Pope Leo the Fourteenth has fulfilled a promise made years before he became Bishop of Rome. In the small, isolated town of Santa Cruz, a local priest remembers then-Bishop Robert Prevost giving his word that he would return. And so he has.
That thread of kept promises continues as Pope Leo moves through the third day of his Apostolic Journey to Peru, arriving in Chiclayo — the diocese he shepherded from two thousand fifteen to two thousand twenty three. There is something quietly profound about a leader returning not in triumph, but in recognition, honoring the people who shaped him.
That is this hour's reflection. Carry the light gently.
