text "Gotta Serve Somebody" When the album entitled “Slow Train Coming” was launched in 1979, one song…
text "It's been a hard day's night, and I've been working like a dog." Coming home very late from a hospital call, I was listening to a Beatle&rsquo…
text "I hear you knocking, but you can't come in." Once the rhythm and blues song “I Hear You Knocking, But You Can’t…
text "What a friend we have in Jesus." "What a friend we have in Jesus." Some years ago I was invited to a Hymn Sing at a Lutheran Church. I must…
text Baptism: A Journey of Hope The tiny hands of the two-day-old baby open and closed with each drop of water…
text "As we look back at those who have gone before us, what do we find?" It was Monday afternoon, two days before Christmas eve that I reached…
text "Always give more than you take." Reading the daily obituaries always gives me a new lease on life. A firm…
text If you want the most unlikely answers, then listen to the unexpected questions. In the words of the poet Mary Oliver, “Poetry is a life giving force…
text "Lift up your eyes upon this day breaking for you. Give birth again to the dream." The inevitable synchronicity of all four gospel accounts of the advent of God…
text "I wait with quickened hope for crooked paths to straighten." Generations of the family gathered around the bed as I prepared to administer…
text "Who lives on the outskirts of the kingdom?" The feast of Christ the King signals the end of Ordinary Time and the…
text "Still, I put up with this Church until I see a better one... The seventeenth century Christian humanist and scholar, Erasmus, had, like…
text "Here's the church, here's the steeple, open the door and see all the people." Combining words with action, a favorite childhood nursery rhyme often ended…
text "Come to me, all you that are weary, and I will give you rest." Soul searching moments can take us by surprise and, with the grace of God,…
text "Do you love me?" "I suppose I do" Often, when I hear the question, “Do you love me?” I think of a…
text "In vino veritas, in aqua sanitas." The clinking of wine glasses had gotten the attention of the many wedding…
text "Don't leave before the miracle happens." This past Sunday, October 5th, Pope Francis called for a creative and humble…
text "In vino veritas, in aqua sanitas." The clinking of wine glasses had gotten the attention of the many wedding…
text "Which of the characters in today's Gospel do you most identify with?" In today’s gospel, Matthew 21:28-32, Jesus tells the story about two…
text "Too much of a good thing is wonderful." The young mother and her two children were sitting in the booth behind me. I…
text "Next Week in Jerusalem." "Next Week in Jerusalem." Taking a break from the Ordinary Time of our liturgical cycle, the celebration…
text "If two of you on earth agree about anything you ask..." “If two of you on earth agree about anything you ask, it will be done…
text "You duped me, O Lord, and I allowed myself to be duped." Openly lamenting his faithful service to God, Jeremiah, the reluctant…
