text 29th Sunday of the Year: Servant Suffering [It has been another of “those” weeks – too much to do and too little time. So I’m offering this…
text 28th Sunday of the Year: 10 October 2021 — The Folly of Stuff Today’s readings focus on the most precious of the Gifts of the Holy Spirit — wisdom, beginning…
text 27th Sunday of the Year: Suffering the Little Children Today’s readings largely focus on the union of men and women, commonly known as marriage, beginning…
text 26th Sunday of the Year: All to Myself Alone… [Yesterday evening and this morning, I was waylaid by the unnecessarily complex ordeal of getting…
text 25th Sunday of the Year: A Harvest of Justice According to current calculations, there are fewer than one hundred shopping days left before…
text 24th Sunday of the Year: Cause for Reflection Mid-September brings the autumnal equinox, the end of summer, and usually occurs around the time of…
text 23rd Sunday of the Year: The Call to Compassion So much has happened in the past week, it is difficult to keep up with events even as they arrest…
text 22nd Sunday of the Year: Into the Fire Living in the midst of turmoil is trying in normal times, but somehow it has recently become a…
text “Employees must wash hands before leaving the restroom.” The father of the ten-year-old boy became concerned when his son had not…
text 21st Sunday of the Year: Finding Harmony Much can happen in a week, especially if you are trying to follow it all at a great distance on the…
text “I always start my dreams before I fall asleep, and then they just continue.” While waiting for the bank deposit to be counted, I overheard a young girl…
text Feast of the Assumption of Mary 2021 It is not often that the Feast of the Assumption of Mary falls on a Sunday, displacing the regular…
text “Lay aside immaturity, and live, and walk in the way of wisdom.” The great thing about getting older is that it requires so little effort. Yes…
text 19th Sunday of the year: Founders Day On this nineteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time, as we like to call it, while other Catholics around the…
text “Wonder Bread! It helps build strong bodies in twelve ways!” As a child, I remembered watching our black and white Philco television and…
text 18th Sunday of the Year: Living Bread The restrictions imposed because of the COVID pandemic have prevented many Christians from regular…
text “Why is hay like manna from heaven?” In the fast-paced world of gourmet cooking, Julia Child remains an icon of…
text 17th Sunday of the Year: Multiplication Factor If not all eyes are fixed on the Tokyo Olympics, at least several hundred million are at any given…
text “Father, would you like a doggie-bag for all the leftover food you didn’t eat?” In what sounded like an announcement over a bullhorn, the waitress alerted…
text 16th Sunday of the Year: Reason to hope Watching the cottonwood seed tufts floating lazily by on a golden afternoon in rural Ireland,…
text “Life is short. Smile while you still have teeth.” Having participated in multiple funerals during the last three weeks, I found…
text 15th Sunday of the Year: Choosing Life Much of Europe and even North America has little on its collective mind (for a change) other than…
text “Well you can do anything, but stay off my blue suede shoes.” While I never owned a pair of blue suede shoes, I do remember dancing in a…
text 14th Sunday of the Year: The Cost of Freedom Freedom is like the air we breathe – we hardly notice it until it is challenged, threatened, or…
