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Tuesday, January 11, 2022
In some recent homilies, especially Christmas and Epiphany, I used some space illustrations to lead to some theological points. My starting illustrations were the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope on Christmas Day, which by the way all has…
Tuesday, January 4, 2022
The Archbishop’s Call to Share (ACTS) kicks off this weekend. This is an annual appeal to fund many important ministries of the Archdiocese that we could not do alone as a single parish. It is the equivalent of our annual parish stewardship which…
Tuesday, December 21, 2021
Merry Christmas, Happy Epiphany, Happy New Year and Thank You! Thank you for all the cards, gifts, goodies, and prayers you have given to me! We continue to celebrate our Christmas season, especially this Sunday with the Epiphany. We also enter a…
Tuesday, December 14, 2021
Merry Christmas! The angels sang at that first Christmas, “Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace to those on whom his favor rests.” (Luke 2:14) I pray you too experience peace in these days. At the Christmas Eve Masses, you likely will hear…
Friday, December 10, 2021
On this Fourth Sunday of Advent, as we draw near to Christmas, let’s become cave people! Not Neanderthals or “Complain About Virtually Everything” (CAVE acronym) people, but people of the cave at Bethlehem, the crèche, the nativity scene! If you…
Tuesday, December 7, 2021
In our Gospel, the crowds asked John the Baptist, “What should we do?”
First, rejoice! Christmas is less than two weeks away from this Sunday and this is Gaudete Sunday! “Gaudete” is Latin meaning “rejoice”, and we light the rose/pink candle (ours…
Monday, November 29, 2021
This second week of Advent is a powerful one. In our Sunday Gospel, we meet St. John the Baptist and hear his preaching. On Monday, we celebrate St. Nicholas. On Tuesday, St. Ambrose. Then on Wednesday, Dec. 8th, we celebrate the Solemnity of the…
Tuesday, November 16, 2021
Welcome to the Season of Advent! We begin a new Church liturgical year and enter Year C, focusing on the Gospel of Luke for our Sundays. Advent is a bit longer than average this year, 27 days out of a possible 28 (including Christmas Eve), since…
Saturday, November 13, 2021
This weekend we celebrate the Baptism of the Lord. The Gospel tells us of Jesus’ baptism by John the Baptist in the River Jordan. After the baptism, “a voice came from heaven, ‘You are my beloved Son, with you I am well pleased.’” (Luke 3:22)
Our…
Saturday, November 13, 2021
In many liturgical scholars’ thoughts, this feast of the Epiphany of the Lord should begin perhaps its own liturgical season, separate from Christmas and encompassing the next three Sundays. The word ‘Epiphany’ is often referred to as a…