“Part of me is still mystified at why so many people who witnessed your presence and your miracles didn’t accept you and believe in you. But another part of me isn’t, because I can see you in my own heart that same hard-heartedness. I know you and believe in you, and yet I still lash out at my neighbor, I still wound others with my tongue, and I still indulge my self concern my self concertedness. With the mercy of your heart, soften my heart…

~An excerpt from Fr. John Bartunek’s “The Better Part”