We have survived Easter and the fifty days. We ease back into the routine of life and the down time of summer, school’s out. The liturgical year slips into its benign period and for a while anyway spiritual demands are not…
Diet
Provoked
It’s been a while now, actually a lot of years. I have been “casting my eyes” on the daily readings of the Church for about forty years or so. Because of that I have been encouraged to do things, empowered…
Called Out
This Lent our parish theme was: “After meeting Jesus what will you do?” In that tiny sentence is a question that could probably take a lifetime to answer. By the fifth Sunday of Lent, however, this question was poking at…
Into the Darkness!
Gifts, we have gifts, we ALL have gifts. I bet you have heard that one and might have said to yourself: “I haven’t got a single gift.” I speculate that we have all done or said that at least once…
Three Questions for Lent and Beyond
Popular Catholic speaker Matthew Kelly often begins his presentations with this phrase: “There’s genius in Catholicism.” That couldn’t be truer. There are so many things about the Church that make perfect sense and one of them is the calendar. The…
That’ll Leave a Mark
It’s Lent not November. By now you have at least pondered how you will try to alter your prayer and faith life for the good. You may or may have not been successful up to this point, the first week…
Just One Thing
So, I was thinking about Lent 2017 and all sorts of choices, proposed actions and guilts are swirling around in my head. You know: how Lent should make me better, amp up my spiritual life, change my prayer life and…
Sweet Sounds
“The footsteps of those who bring good news is a welcome sound. Faith comes from what is preached, and what is preached comes from the word of Christ.” (Rm 10: 15, 17). In our society, today we have completely changed…
The Vocabulary of Change
Not long after the Nativity we celebrate the Epiphany, the twelfth day of Christmas. People who celebrate this holiday recognize it as the arrival of the Magi at the birth of Jesus after a long arduous journey to seek the…
God’s Significant Extremes
Well, the holidays are just barely off the radar and it’s probably time for you to answer this question: How comfortable were you in the middle of the milieu of family, gifts, celebrations? Did you get a lot of “stuff”…