text "Gotta Serve Somebody" When the album entitled “Slow Train Coming” was launched in 1979, one song…
text "Finding a way home." The customer line did not look that long, but on a hot day any length of line…
text "Jesus, you got that right." Listening to his heart rather than her words, Jesus answered the Canaanite…
text "Faith is walking on water against your better judgement" Listening through both the silence and the chaos that surrounded us, Jack…
text "Whatever happened to the twelve baskets of leftovers?" Recently, I was invited to a luncheon held at The Old Country Buffet. Upon…
text "What's important and what isn't?" Waiting for someone to answer the front door, I noticed a note to the fire…
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 parishioner…
text "Jesus, why do you speak in parables?" Jesus was a good story teller and engaged his disciples in accessible…
text "Blue Bunny, Jucy Lucy and Espresso: Invitations to rest and relaxation." In between weddings a week ago, I went in search of a quiet place for lunch…
text "La festa di San Pietro e Paolo" Let’s face it, everything sounds better in Italian! And if we were…
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 A Trinity of Hope: Francis, Shimon and Mahmoud Pope Francis plunged headfirst into Mideast peacemaking when he welcomed the…
text "Happy Birthday, Mother Church" When I arrived, there she sat like the “Queen Bee”, in her rocking…
text "Lord, is this the time when you will restore the kingdom to Israel?" This past week, Pope Francis concluded his “ultimate marathon tour&rdquo…
text "Why is it so hard to be happy?" There was nothing formal about the invitation, but I was eager to accept it…
text "Cramming for the final exam" A memory of college exams brings to mind the phrase: “All-nighters…
text "I dream of a Church that is a mother and a shepherdess." As we celebrate Good Shepherd Sunday in our liturgy this weekend, we also…
text "How wonderful is it to be alive?" In a stunning little book entitled “I Never Saw Another Butterfly,&rdquo…
text "Before enlightenment, the laundry. After enlightenment, the laundry." As I waited patiently in line at the local grocery store, I was fascinated…
text It wasn't the apple on the tree, it was the pair on the ground." When I first heard this playful explanation of Adam and Eve’s behavior…
