Preaching for the Third Sunday of Advent, Gaudete Sunday, Mary Jo Iozzio offers a reflection on realizing joy in this world through inclusion:
"Indeed, where anyone is absent or excluded from our assemblies, it is there that our joy will be incomplete: all are called to something different, that is, through the joy in the world as a whole that may only be realized when inclusion prevails."
Mary Jo Iozzio, Ph.D. is Professor of Moral Theology at Boston College School of Theology and ministry. She recently earned the License in Sacred Theology-STL with a focus on disability from Boston College (2019). She served as inaugural member on the American Academy of Religion, Committee on the Status of People with Disabilities in the Profession and now serves as co-chair of its Religion and Disability Studies Group.
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