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 “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 “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…
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…
text Trinity Sunday 2020: A Dance of Perfect Love A “perfect storm” refers to a rare confluence of factors that greatly aggravates the force of a…
text “When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.” Last summer, while stopping at an intersection, a young boy came up to the…
text “When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.” Last summer, while stopping at an intersection, a young boy came up to the…
text Pentecost 2020: Come Holy Spirit! Chaos and violence erupted in Chicago last night, as in large cities from coast to coast. This…
text “On the Wings of a Snow-white Dove.” One of the most popular Country singers during the 1950’s was Marty Robbins…
text “On the Wings of a Snow-white Dove.” One of the most popular Country singers during the 1950’s was Marty Robbins…
text The Ascension of Jesus as Lord Today in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis and the eve of Memorial Day in the United States, we…
text “around me surges a miracle of unceasing birth and glory and death and resurrection” The poetry of e.e. cummings was included in a funeral I recently attended…
text “around me surges a miracle of unceasing birth and glory and death and resurrection” The poetry of e.e. cummings was included in a funeral I recently attended…
text Sixth Sunday of Easter 2020: The Spirit of Truth The world is now in what is arguably the sixth month of the COVID-19 pandemic. The stress on people…
text “Why is it so hard to be happy?” In this unprecedented time of life, the Covid-19 Virus has redefined the…
text “Why is it so hard to be happy?” In this unprecedented time of life, the Covid-19 Virus has redefined the…
text 5th Sunday of Easter 2020: Mothers’ Day [On this Mothers’ Day in the Year of COVID-19, I am borrowing from a homily going back to 2017. I…
text Cramming for the final exam A memory of college exams brings to mind the phrase: “All nighters.” Trying…
text Cramming for the final exam A memory of college exams brings to mind the phrase: “All nighters.” Trying…
text Fourth Sunday of Easter: Good Shepherd Sunday As the crisis created by the spread of COVID-19 continues, the extreme differences in people’s…
text “The human mind and a parachute are helpful only when they are open.” The calendar next to her bed contained the picture of a man falling from a…
text “The human mind and a parachute are helpful only when they are open.” The calendar next to her bed contained the picture of a man falling from a…
text Third Sunday of Easter 2020: On the Road While memories of the global disaster brought about by the new coronavirus at Easter time of this…
text “How wonderful is it to be alive?” In a stunning little book entitled I Never Saw Another Butterfly, an…
