"At the entrance of paradise, what speech would you make, explaining why you can't come in?"

"There is something very fundamental in the Gospel that we don't want to hear, and what we don't want to hear is going to give us life." So says Father Thomas M. King, S.J. in the homily presented above, which ends with this pointed question: "At the entrance of paradise, what speech would you make, explaining why you can't come in?" Father King died four years ago today, yet his presence-in-absence still remains very palpable to those of us who knew him. Of the various things that I've written on this blog regarding Tom King, I believe that the best remains this post written shortly after his funeral. AMDG.