text “What causes you to come back every week to celebrate the Eucharist?” Measuring church attendance is not rocket science and remains an inadequate…
text “It was a dark and stormy night.” The popular comic strip Peanuts featured a dog-named Snoopy. An aspiring…
text “It was a dark and stormy night.” The popular comic strip Peanuts featured a dog-named Snoopy. An aspiring…
text Pentecost 2021: The Breath of Life Tonight, after Vespers, the paschal candle will be snuffed out, bringing to a close the great…
text “If the Spirit descended like a dove, why did Jesus send a parakeet?” As background to the Feast of Pentecost, the parish priest had just finished…
text “If the Spirit descended like a dove, why did Jesus send a parakeet?” As background to the Feast of Pentecost, the parish priest had just finished…
text Ascension (7th Sunday of Easter) 2021: Forever Present Today, as the Holy Land finds itself again embroiled in savage and indiscriminate slaughter, many…
text So, kiss me and smile for me, tell me that you’ll wait for me, hold me like you’ll never let me go. It won’t be too hard to find his room”, the nurse said. “Just listen for the…
text So, kiss me and smile for me, tell me that you’ll wait for me, hold me like you’ll never let me go. It won’t be too hard to find his room”, the nurse said. “Just listen for the…
text Sixth Sunday of Easter 2021: Honor Thy Mother! Mother’s Day dawned here on a chilly, drizzly morning, but that didn’t matter to the thousands of…
text “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.” “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.” If I were to ask you how many how many ways God loves you, would you be able…
text “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.” “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.” If I were to ask you how many how many ways God loves you, would you be able…
text Fifth Sunday of Easter: 2 May 2021 — The Bond of Love Today’s gospel reading is taken from Jesus’ long exhortation to his disciples at the Last Supper,…
text Getting knocked off your high horse is not just an occupational hazard for jockeys My first horse race proved to be a winner. I was twelve years old and in the…
text Getting knocked off your high horse is not just an occupational hazard for jockeys My first horse race proved to be a winner. I was twelve years old and in the…
text Fourth Sunday of Easter: Fateful Recognition After the revisions of the liturgy following the Second Vatican Council, this fourth Sunday of…
text “You must be shepherds who smell like your sheep.” A few years ago, Pope Francis admitted that he had made “grave errors” in…
text “You must be shepherds who smell like your sheep.” A few years ago, Pope Francis admitted that he had made “grave errors” in…
text 3rd Sunday of Easter: Recognizing Jesus We are still in the upper room this Sunday, as if the celebration of our eucharist lodged us with…
text “Have you anything to eat?” At first the cardboard sign was hard to read, but as the old lady came closer…
text “Have you anything to eat?” At first the cardboard sign was hard to read, but as the old lady came closer…
text Second Sunday of Easter 2021: The Quality of Mercy The Sunday after Easter, which is also known with greater reason as Resurrection Sunday, has even…
text “Faith is not genuine unless it is tinged with a trace of doubt.” “Faith is not genuine unless i Whenever I am experiencing moments of doubt regarding my faith, I head for St…
text “Faith is not genuine unless it is tinged with a trace of doubt.” “Faith is not genuine unless i Whenever I am experiencing moments of doubt regarding my faith, I head for St…
text Easter Day 2021: Light in a Dark Time Death’s strong bands have been broken! That good news could hardly come at a more needed time,…
