text "Gotta Serve Somebody" When the album entitled “Slow Train Coming” was launched in 1979, one song…
text 18th Sunday of the Year: Living Bread The restrictions imposed because of the COVID pandemic have prevented many Christians from regular…
text “Why is hay like manna from heaven?” In the fast-paced world of gourmet cooking, Julia Child remains an icon of…
text 17th Sunday of the Year: Multiplication Factor If not all eyes are fixed on the Tokyo Olympics, at least several hundred million are at any given…
text “Father, would you like a doggie-bag for all the leftover food you didn’t eat?” In what sounded like an announcement over a bullhorn, the waitress alerted…
text 16th Sunday of the Year: Reason to hope Watching the cottonwood seed tufts floating lazily by on a golden afternoon in rural Ireland,…
text “Life is short. Smile while you still have teeth.” Having participated in multiple funerals during the last three weeks, I found…
text 15th Sunday of the Year: Choosing Life Much of Europe and even North America has little on its collective mind (for a change) other than…
text “Well you can do anything, but stay off my blue suede shoes.” While I never owned a pair of blue suede shoes, I do remember dancing in a…
text 14th Sunday of the Year: The Cost of Freedom Freedom is like the air we breathe – we hardly notice it until it is challenged, threatened, or…
text “You’re looking at an old person who’s trying to get into heaven now.” During the 1960’s and 70’s, many of us remember listening to the comedian…
text “Taking her by the hand, Jesus said to her: ‘Little lamb, arise.’ ” Entering the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at 4:40 A.M., I donned a surgical…
text 12th Sunday of Ordinary Time: The Peril of the Seas Until the 20th century, humankind was often in peril of the sea, even a small one like Lake…
text “Why are you afraid? Have you still no faith?” We cannot move forward in faith until we have learned to name our fears and…
text 11th Sunday of the Year: The Gardening of God God is a better gardener than I am, for sure. About fifteen years ago, I planted a Cedar of Lebanon…
text “What makes your heart sing?” The elevator ride from the third floor to the first floor did not take too…
text “Where do we find the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ?” The contrast would be enormous: a dimly lit room in an Intensive Care Unit…
text Trinity Sunday 2021: A Dance of Perfect Harmony [Summer may be acumin in, even on Tuesday according to meteorologists, but my fingers are stiff…
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 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 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…
