Fr Kevin Ballard SJ offered the community an opportunity to reflect on the biblical notion that God desires mercy, not sacrifice. It was a reflective few hours on Saturday Feb 24, 2017. Attendees were encouraged to consider during the feast of passover how God has saved us, this date, this week, this month, not at some distant time in the past. Sacrifice does not always make us as uncomfortable as it should for honest reflection on how we should be in the world. One should also experience the "sweet happiness of mercy". There is as much enlightenment in joy and mercy as there is in sorrow and sacrifice.