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ENCOURAGE DEEPER UNDERSTANDING OF SCRIPTURE The lens through which we view life makes a difference. It also determines who we choose to learn from and what we allow to shape our thoughts and feelings. For many, life is simply what it appears to be,…

This Sunday is the closing ceremony of the 2020 Olympics. It was amazing to watch the athletes compete and to see the greatest feats of strength, endurance, speed, and agility across many events. The athletes train for years, dedicate their lives to…

I’m back from a summer break on writing this column and grateful to our summer seminarian intern Colm (no pun intended as his name is pronounced “column”) for writing some great articles this summer. I’m excited for the next few Sundays as we have…

Dear Prince of Peace Parishioners, This is the last weekend that I will be at the parish. I should be around this next week to a certain degree but this will be my last time to see you all on a Sunday. I want to say thank you for your hospitality…

ENCOURAGE DEEPER UNDERSTANDING OF SCRIPTURE There’s an ordinary pine grove located on a tree farm not too far from town where life’s stresses and demands seem to melt away. It is here that all that seemed so important out there no longer is and one…

We live in an increasingly busy world. We are sold products that offer more convenient solutions to things that were not even that inconvenient in the first place. We work and rush around to such a great extent that many people find it difficult to…

ENCOURAGE DEEPER UNDERSTANDING OF SCRIPTURE Maybe the work is best left to the professionals. That’s how many people view the preaching of the Gospel. That’s the stuff priests, religious, deacons, lay ministers, and other professional Church people…

Christianity is unique among all of the religions in the world in that it professes Faith in a God that is both utterly transcendent and yet incarnate and closer to us than we are to ourselves. We have a God who is outside space and time and yet who…

ENCOURAGE DEEPER UNDERSTANDING OF SCRIPTURE It’s all so ordinary that we can easily miss it. The seagulls hunting and diving for mollusks at the beach offer a display of determination and precision as they gather their food for the day. It’s simply…

Today we celebrate the 14th Sunday in Ordinary Time, but we also celebrate our nation’s Independence Day. Today and tomorrow, all over the world, people will be gathering together to enjoy the freedom that was declared to be ours on this day 245…