text Robbing Peter to Pay Paul There is an assumption that the phrase, “Robbing Peter to pay Paul,” is…
text 24th Sunday of the year: The Wondrous Cross Tomorrow’s observance of the Triumph of the Cross marks the half-way point to the great Paschal…
text “The person seeking revenge must be prepared to dig two graves.” The Chinese get blamed for a lot of things, especially in the business world…
text 23rd Sunday of the Year: Love in Troubled Times [It has been a very difficult week according to the news media—not watching it helps to keep…
text “Where two or three are gathered in my name, it’s time to pass the basket.” When the pastor got up to preach, the little girl turned to her mother and…
text 22nd Sunday of the Year: Storms of Life [Today is Day 8 of my new quarantine period after return from Ireland a week ago. With classes at…
text “You duped me, O Lord, and I allowed myself to be duped.” “You duped me, O Lord, and I allowed mys Openly lamenting his faithful service to God, Jeremiah, the reluctant prophet…
text “Finding a way home.” The customer line did not look that long, but on a hot day any length of line…
text Twentieth Sunday of the Year: That All May Be One As the Church looks at time, we are approaching the midpoint between the end of the Easter season…
text “Jesus, you got that right.” A few years ago, at the baptism of a street person who had found both Jesus…
text 19th Sunday of the Year: Walking on Water What began as a fairly normal year (in the strange world of Trump, Brexit, etc.) too quickly turned…
text “Faith is walking on water against your better judgment.” Listening through both the silence and the chaos that surrounded us, Jack…
text “Whatever happened to the twelve baskets of leftovers?” Some years ago, I was invited to a luncheon held at The Old Country Buffet…
text Eighteenth Sunday of the Year: Hunger for Justice In the world today, preoccupied as it is with the Pandemic, elections, and sports events, it is all…
text Seventeenth Sunday of the Year: The Price of Pearls Ordinary U.S. citizens are not very good at saving money, as has been too clearly shown in the dire…
text “What’s important and what isn’t?” While waiting for someone to answer the front door, I noticed a note…
text 16th Sunday of the Year: The Kindness of God 16th Sunday of the Year: The Kindness of God Wis 12:13,16-19 Ps 86 Rom 8:26-27 Mt 13:24-43 Today’s…
text “The Kingdom of God could be like a run down and abandoned farm.” There was the wonderful story about the priest who visited a young…
text 15th Sunday of the Year: The Sower and the Seed Is 55:10-11 Ps 65 Rom 8:18-23 Mt 13:1-23 Both Isaiah and the responsory psalm for the day…
text “Jesus: A Preacher Outstanding In His Field.” There are no historical records indicating that Jesus was a farmer, fisherman…
text “What is the cost of discipleship?” The inquiry had begun long before the real question was asked. After guzzling…
text 12th Sunday of the Year: Honoring Our Fathers As people around the world observe Sunday in various ways, many are also honoring their fathers…
text 12th Sunday of the Year: Honoring Our Fathers As people around the world observe Sunday in various ways, many are also honoring their fathers…
text “I sing because I’m happy, I sing because I’m free, for His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He wat Growing up Catholic, I must confess that I had no knowledge of the…
text “Softly and Tenderly Jesus Is Calling, Calling For You and For Me.” On April 8, 1968 at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, the…
