Last week a friend summed up the challenge of my life. He said he hates change and he can’t stand the way things are. I totally agree, change is difficult. It’s difficult at the personal level and near impossible at the institutional level. According to a CNN Politics July 4, 2016 article, in our 200-year plus Unites States history, Americans have made more than 11,000 attempts to change the Constitution. Only 27 of them stuck.
Change is not impossible though. The Newsboys tell us how in their 2014 Sparrow Records YouTube video recording. Enjoy!

Dan O’Donnell, a layman has covenanted with the Chicago Community. In addition to the standard covenant, Dan promises to work at connecting all partners known and unknown, to a conscious following the the way of Jesus, the way of the cross which Dan believes transforms all failure, democratizing the human journey
We are a community of laymen and laywomen who, with vowed Passionists, seek to share in the charism of St. Paul of the Cross through prayer, ongoing spiritual formation, and proclamation of the message of Christ Crucified.