text "Gotta Serve Somebody" When the album entitled “Slow Train Coming” was launched in 1979, one song…
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 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 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 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 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,…
text “The great gift of Easter is hope.” Waiting in the wings to go on stage was the image that came to mind as I…
text Palm Sunday: March 28 2021 It hardly needs noting that we live in vexed and troubled times, not very much different from the…
text “We all do better when we all do better.” The reenactment of Jesus’ triumphant entrance into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday…
text “Who was that masked man?” In the early 1950’s most of the homes in my neighborhood did not possess…
text 5th Sunday of Lent 2021: The Everlasting Covenant Today western Christians begin the last full week of Lent, which ends with Holy Thursday and the…
text 4th Sunday of Lent 2021: the Rite of Return There doesn’t seem to be much joy in today’s readings, at least not at first glance. And…
text “Star light, star bright, The first star I see tonight; I wish I may, I wish I might, have the wish Her hospital room was filled with multicolored stars dangling from the…
text 3rd Sunday of Lent 2021: Peace Pilgrims It has been almost 21 years since Pope John Paul II visited Egypt, Jordan, and the Holy Land, where…
text “Faith is the absence of proof.” Mel Brooks, who wrote, produced, directed and starred in the 1981 comedy film…
text 2nd Sunday of Lent: Beloved Sons Back in 1974, as I contemplated a year at Oxford, I had planned to study under the watchful eye of…
text “Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows.” “Who knows what evil lurks in t As my family rode home on late Sunday afternoons, my father would switch on…
text 1st Sunday in Lent 2021: A fresh start? It seems that no matter how many hills we climb, or how dark the night, there’s another one to deal…
text “What floats your boat?” Good question, I thought, as I stared at the bumper sticker on the boat…
text Sixth Sunday of the Year: Honor, Love, and Cherish Although today’s readings focus on disease, specifically leprosy, and more importantly, compassion…
text “What are friends for?” I don’t recall when I first heard the phrase, “What are friends for”, but I…
