text "Gotta Serve Somebody" When the album entitled “Slow Train Coming” was launched in 1979, one song…
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 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 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 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…
text Second Sunday of Easter: Divine Mercy Today in the midst of the world-wide pandemic known as COVID-19, the Catholic Church pauses to…
text “Faith is not genuine unless it is tinged with a trace of doubt.” Whenever I am experiencing moments of doubt regarding my faith, I head for St…
text Easter 2020: The Festival of Hope Last night, after watching the televised celebration of the Easter Vigil from the Shine of the…
text “Jesus Christ is Risen! Now What?” Entering the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, located in the Old City of…
text Palm Sunday 2020: Welcoming Salvation Every year, in some way most Christians reenact Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem on this Palm Sunday and…
text Fifth Sunday of Lent 2020: The Power of Forgiveness Death is very much in the news media and in our minds and hearts these troubled days. Today’s…
text “Holding hands with the dying.” As we venture into the Fifth Sunday of Lent, our gospel reading from John (11…
text Fourth Sunday of Lent 2020: This Joyful Season “Count it all joy…” Years ago, when I was still a mere student in the Dominican order, my German…
text “There is none so blind as the one who will not see.” Entering the Fourth Sunday of Lent, traditionally known as “Laetare Sunday” …
text Third Sunday of Lent: Water of Life This Sunday appears to be unprecedented in the churches of the Archdiocese of Chicago and elsewhere…
text “Do not harden your hearts.” Reaching beyond the confines of our comfort zones becomes the theme of today…
text Second Sunday of Lent: Light in the Darkness In years to come, the spring of this year is more likely to be remembered for the outbreak of the…
text “Before enlightenment, the laundry. After enlightenment, the laundry.” Waiting patiently in line at the local grocery store, I was fascinated with…
text First Sunday of Lent: Getting Clear Love in the Time of Cholera, the great novel by Colombian Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez,…
