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Just don’t call me late ... for Mass
Mornings may not be the wokest time of day for aging teens. Growing up is hard to do and the fallout from dealing all day with raging hormones and the strains of peer pressure in school can leave one exhausted at the end of the week. Just don’t wake me …
Do you want to be my disciple?
It’s an amazing thing. Jesus getting down on his hands and knees, begging to wash the feet of his disciples, the night before he died.
‘Come out of the darkness:’ the challenge of the Resurrection
The Resurrection of Jesus Christ is nothing less than explosive and, to use natural imagery, comparable to the discovery of fission, the splitting of the atom.
Hang on to the Cross
Ever dared to shake your fist at heaven? Honest enough to admit you have ever gotten mad at God? Or maybe just had a few questions you would like to take up when you and God are alone together sometime? In a safe place, of course, when your arms are …
Jesus is our safe space
To be true to its mission as a place where salvation happens, the Church must be, first and foremost, a safe space, where our weakest and most vulnerable can find peace and the assurance that they will be protected, nourished and healed.
Confirming doubts
We’ve celebrated Easter Sunday, the observance of the Lord’s Resurrection, as early as March 22. No earlier date is permitted since, ecclesiastically, the vernal equinox is fixed on March 21. Cycles are part of the rhythm of life. Jesus himself observed them.
Raising expectations
Sometimes rumors are true. The adage has it that March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb. We certainly can use a lift after the trials and tribulations we have been going through and the state of a world teetering on the brink of endless war.
Who is ‘The Church?’ Reflections on synodality
I’ll admit it! Talk about “we are the Church” may sound more than a little hypocritical when used by certain hierarchs and theologians, almost as if to deflect accountability for less than stellar leadership and counsel.
Seeing Jesus
To hear saintly people bearing witness to “seeing Jesus” in others had always intrigued me.
A Lent like none other
That’s an expression many of us have heard and lived in recent years. Who can forget the great lockdowns of spring 2020, when most of us had to spend the better part of Lent and even the Easter season huddled at home
The Beatitude of personal presence
Regarding the Beatitudes G.K. Chesterton once said, “On first reading it doesn’t make sense, on second reading nothing else makes sense!”
To tell the truth
“You can’t handle the truth!” If you’ve seen the movie, “A Few Good Men” (1992), you may recall those explosive words by which the self-important Col. Nathan R. Jessep (Jack Nicholson) attempts on the witness stand to dismiss the brash Navy prosecutor Lt. Daniel Kaffee (Tom Cruise).
The Catholic School Advantage
How often I have quoted words of wisdom and experience from our renowned Superintendent of Schools, Giovanni Virgiglio.
Enough already?
“You don’t know; you’re learning.” My paternal grandpa would say, while cutting my hair as a youngster. He had a way of trimming my ego as well.
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