I rarely listen to music these days and I have talked about this song in a homily here before, so I’m hesitant to do it again. But as I think about today’s Gospel it continues to come up, so here we go. Time will tell if it works or not. It is a 2007 country… Continue reading 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time
15th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year B
I lived with a priest, who will remain nameless at this point, who was famous for his social calendar. I’ve never seen someone book so much into one evening. I remember one night in particular, a few nights earlier he had come to me and told me as a courtesy that he was having a… Continue reading 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year B
14th Sunday in Ordinary Time (4th of July)
Today we celebrate our nation’s 245th birthday. In the history of countries, that is a long time for a country to still be around and relatively unchanged from its founding principles. Yet, despite all of our struggles and all of the political differences that seem to exist in our country and for as much as… Continue reading 14th Sunday in Ordinary Time (4th of July)
13th Sunday in Ordinary Time
What if your life was just one big dream. What if everything you think you have experienced in this world comes to an end when you wake up and you find yourself in bed realizing what I thought was my entire life was just a dream. Of course, that is a crazy thought, but I… Continue reading 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Corpus Christi 2021
School has been out for a couple of weeks, so I thought we would start with a little quiz. One question, three choices, pass/fail, so you have a 33% chance of getting it right by just guessing. It is a simple question; most Catholics should know the answer to: Which of the following expresses our… Continue reading Corpus Christi 2021
Trinity Sunday 2021
By far the hardest course I’ve ever taken was the course on the Trinity. I remember laughing at the fact that I was going to take an entire course on what the Catechism says in the central mystery of our faith. How am I supposed to understand what the Church says we cannot understand? This… Continue reading Trinity Sunday 2021
Pentecost Sunday 2021
Emotions are interesting things. While there is no scientific consensus on a definition of what an emotion is. But I think all of us know what emotions are simply by experience. However, you want define them, they have the ability to well up inside of us causing us to do things we would never dream… Continue reading Pentecost Sunday 2021
Ascension Sunday 2021
Life is filled hopes and dreams is it not. Look at every stage of your life and probably even now and what do you find. You find that that you hoped for certain things or that you dreamed for certain things and maybe some of those hopes and dreams came true and maybe others didn’t.… Continue reading Ascension Sunday 2021
4th Sunday of Easter
A couple of weeks ago, as is pretty common in my life, I found myself back in the hospital for an ethics consultation with a patient from another parish. He was facing some difficult medical choices and wanted some ethical input and so I was sent to meet with him. I walked into the patient’s… Continue reading 4th Sunday of Easter
2nd Sunday of Easter
I have good news and I have bad news and as is often the case when someone tells you that, the bad news is worse than the good news. The good news is that Catholicism is still the largest religion in our country[1], the bad news is that the second largest religion is fallen away… Continue reading 2nd Sunday of Easter
