"And so I think the thing that I discovered very, very quickly was that you have to be present to people and to kind of see what they need"

"When they had told us that...one of their kids had told them that the greatest gift that their parents had ever given them was to live abroad in mission...and we really wanted that for our kids. And that has been 100% true."

"any sincere attempt to reach God is going to be successful, even if we don't necessarily feel it. Even if it doesn't feel like success, we can rest assured through our faith that we've reached God"

"it did begin this conversation locally of embracing the history, the gift of Blackness in this archdiocese no matter how much it had been suppressed in the past"

"we're not immune to tragic events or to illness or to anything. We just have a different, I guess, we just have a different way of approaching it and that's through the lens of faith."

"I would say prayer is as diverse as people are"

"And as far as I’m concerned I offer my daily work to our Lord and I abandon myself to him because I know we have our Father, he’s our spiritual father, our Father, our creator and he will look after us no matter what."

"…I have good friends that stay at home and they’re stay-at-home moms and I have friends that have amazing professional careers and are also amazing mothers. And so I feel like there’s never, at least in my eyes, there’s never a right or wrong. It’s more like what fits better to you and who you are."

"I think a big part of teaching is developing those relationships not only with students but with your colleagues and fellow staff members, is very important"

"We’ve had some feedback that our podcast is actually keeping women’s voices and women’s preaching in the forefront of the minds of the members of the Plenary Council. So if we can have some impact on that as well, that’s exciting."

"...we were all born with gifts. Unfortunately, a lot of people cannot find their gift...if we can gift something to our humanity we could change the world. Forget about taking. I’ll go back to Juan Diego. Juan Diego was a humble person. He was a man of service"

"You cannot preach a God that is willing to feed the people if the people are hungry...We have to work hand by hand with the people so that the Gospel can have a much more clear message to them."

"And so I struggle with it every week. How do I, how can I be Ezra letting people know the beauty and the wonder and the glory of Catholic teaching and do it in such a way that people want to listen and they want to respond..."

"The Word doesn’t change but we change. I change. Community changes. So I always try to apply the eternal Word of God to the circumstance of the people in front of me. And that’s a challenge so I allow the Word to sit with me."

"I loved choir rehearsal. You know, I really did. I mean, I think it just felt very warm. I mean, I enjoyed the fact that it was beautiful hearing people make such gorgeous music. And I think that it really is a spiritual gift that God gives you."

"I will highly encourage families to pray together. To make sure that you are continually telling your son, your daughter, that they’re loved, that the Lord made them, and the Lord made them with a purpose. And they have a specific vocation that they need to fulfill in which they are going to be happy."

"So I thought about it, I said why do we have to wait for the end of the tunnel? Why do we have to wait for the light at the end of the tunnel? Why can’t we just be light in the tunnel? So I began to think of how I could portray that and then I thought of doing it through music. Music is something I love and it shows in my ministry."