Thank you for calling attention to this. As my spiritual director once taught me, the spirituality of LGBT persons is deeply rooted in the desert and exodus experience: A faithful God walking with us and leading us through a wilderness requiring of us deep trust, faith, and hope.

Also as a formation director, I can testify to the threefold calling of all: the call to be, to live, to do. LGBT persons are confronted like no other group to really discern the first question that makes the others possible: Who am I?/How did God create me?/Why did God create me this way? Only then can one really answer: how am I to live my life and what am I to do with it?

Joseph Augustine+