text “Is Jesus asleep in your boat?” As Pope Benedict XVI prepared to step down from the bridge of the “The…
text “Whatever happened to the twelve baskets of leftovers?” Some years ago, I was invited to a luncheon held at The Old Country Buffet…
text Eighteenth Sunday of the Year: Hunger for Justice In the world today, preoccupied as it is with the Pandemic, elections, and sports events, it is all…
text Seventeenth Sunday of the Year: The Price of Pearls Ordinary U.S. citizens are not very good at saving money, as has been too clearly shown in the dire…
text “What’s important and what isn’t?” While waiting for someone to answer the front door, I noticed a note…
text 16th Sunday of the Year: The Kindness of God 16th Sunday of the Year: The Kindness of God Wis 12:13,16-19 Ps 86 Rom 8:26-27 Mt 13:24-43 Today’s…
text “The Kingdom of God could be like a run down and abandoned farm.” There was the wonderful story about the priest who visited a young…
text 15th Sunday of the Year: The Sower and the Seed Is 55:10-11 Ps 65 Rom 8:18-23 Mt 13:1-23 Both Isaiah and the responsory psalm for the day…
text “Jesus: A Preacher Outstanding In His Field.” There are no historical records indicating that Jesus was a farmer, fisherman…
text “What is the cost of discipleship?” The inquiry had begun long before the real question was asked. After guzzling…
text 12th Sunday of the Year: Honoring Our Fathers As people around the world observe Sunday in various ways, many are also honoring their fathers…
text 12th Sunday of the Year: Honoring Our Fathers As people around the world observe Sunday in various ways, many are also honoring their fathers…
text “I sing because I’m happy, I sing because I’m free, for His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He wat Growing up Catholic, I must confess that I had no knowledge of the…
text “Softly and Tenderly Jesus Is Calling, Calling For You and For Me.” On April 8, 1968 at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, the…
text Trinity Sunday 2020: A Dance of Perfect Love A “perfect storm” refers to a rare confluence of factors that greatly aggravates the force of a…
text “When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.” Last summer, while stopping at an intersection, a young boy came up to the…
text Pentecost 2020: Come Holy Spirit! Chaos and violence erupted in Chicago last night, as in large cities from coast to coast. This…
text “On the Wings of a Snow-white Dove.” One of the most popular Country singers during the 1950’s was Marty Robbins…
text The Ascension of Jesus as Lord Today in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis and the eve of Memorial Day in the United States, we…
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…
