text El domingo, 3 de marzo de 2024 TERCER DOMINGO DE CUARESMA (Éxodo 20:1-17; I Corintios 1:22-25; Juan 2:13-25) Hace años hubo un drama de televisión…
text "Have you anything to eat?" At first the cardboard sign was hard to read, but as the old lady came closer…
text "Do you have anything to hang onto besides your doubt?" The odyssey of every human life brings with it both joy and sorrow, hope and…
text "Listen, I don't want to hear another peep out of you." The allure of Walgreens’ Easter candy section remains an ongoing source…
text "Mom, who's the guy on the donkey?" The reenactment of Jesus’ triumphant entrance into Jerusalem on Palm…
text "The only thing I'd like to do be able to go out without anyone recognizing me and get a pizza" Pope Francis marked the second anniversary of his election, March 13, 2013 by…
text "Hope: Discovering Light in Darkness." The first rays of sun reflected off my rearview mirror as I drove west on…
text "Faith is the absence of proof." When the hospital elevator’s door reopened, all of us were surprised at…
text "Pay attention to the voice behind the curtain." There is a wonderful scene in the film, The Wizard of Oz, where Toto pulls…
text "The most effective way to do it is to do it." In a recent article entitled “The Lady Vanishes Again”, found in…
text "If you choose, you can make me clean." “Moved with pity, Jesus stretched out his hand and touched the leper and…
text "It's been a hard day's night, and I've been working like a dog." Coming home very late from a hospital call, I was listening to a Beatle&rsquo…
text "I hear you knocking, but you can't come in." Once the rhythm and blues song “I Hear You Knocking, But You Can’t…
text "What a friend we have in Jesus." "What a friend we have in Jesus." Some years ago I was invited to a Hymn Sing at a Lutheran Church. I must…
text Baptism: A Journey of Hope The tiny hands of the two-day-old baby open and closed with each drop of water…
text "As we look back at those who have gone before us, what do we find?" It was Monday afternoon, two days before Christmas eve that I reached…
text "Always give more than you take." Reading the daily obituaries always gives me a new lease on life. A firm…
text If you want the most unlikely answers, then listen to the unexpected questions. In the words of the poet Mary Oliver, “Poetry is a life giving force…
text "Lift up your eyes upon this day breaking for you. Give birth again to the dream." The inevitable synchronicity of all four gospel accounts of the advent of God…
text "I wait with quickened hope for crooked paths to straighten." Generations of the family gathered around the bed as I prepared to administer…
text "Who lives on the outskirts of the kingdom?" The feast of Christ the King signals the end of Ordinary Time and the…
text "Still, I put up with this Church until I see a better one... The seventeenth century Christian humanist and scholar, Erasmus, had, like…
text "Here's the church, here's the steeple, open the door and see all the people." Combining words with action, a favorite childhood nursery rhyme often ended…
text "Come to me, all you that are weary, and I will give you rest." Soul searching moments can take us by surprise and, with the grace of God,…