True Gift of Christmas
My Dear friends, With all my heart I wish to you and your families a most blessed Christmas filled with the joy and peace of Christ. I’d like to share with you the opening line of a prayer written for this great Feast: “Lord Jesus, as I bow in adoration [...]
Don’t Miss Out!
This year the Fourth Sunday of Advent happens to fall on Christmas Eve. Because of this, the liturgical calendar challenges us a little bit. It asks just a little more from us. Some of us will attend Mass twice on December 24th! Does it matter if we only attend one [...]
A Disciple’s Gameplan
One area in which I think all Christians ought to grow is in trust. If you have read my words here in the past, it would be clear that I have been blessed to have experienced an encounter with God that changed my heart and my mind. However, that encounter [...]
Don’t Shoot The Messenger
Each Advent, John the Baptist appears on the scene clad in camel’s hair and eating locusts and wild honey. I can imagine that John, even in his own time, was considered a bit of an eccentric. He comes out of the desert and enters the region around the Jordan River [...]
Advent Waiting
My dear friends, We have come again to the time of Advent: the Liturgical Season that highlights the joy of Christ’s first coming, which blesses us now, and the joyful hope for Christ’s return, which we still await. Advent helps us to understand the tension we sometimes experience between the [...]
First Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays. I’ve had to adjust my expectations over the years, because my life and the lives of my loved ones have changed tremendously. Some people we love are no longer with us, so we’ve added elements of remembrance to our celebrations. Some people have [...]
Uncovering Talents
From time to time, I take advantage of these lines to explain some part of our parish music ministry or some of my philosophy in the way I direct it. On those occasions, I suppose the words are in a kind of isolation from the Gospel or other Scriptures, for [...]
Time Away
One of my favorite passages in scripture is the story of Martha and Mary. Jesus accepts a dinner invitation to visit his two dear friends. Martha is busy preparing the meal and making sure that everything is just right for Jesus, while Mary sits quietly at the feet of Jesus [...]
Living Sunday Well
“God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work he had done in creation.” This past weekend, I gave a homily on the importance of keeping the Lord’s Day holy. Father Steven asked me to recap some of the main points [...]
The Beginning
As I prepared my bulletin article for this week, I had the opportunity to write in the presence of our Savior Jesus in our new adoration chapel. What a powerful and beautiful place to spend time with Him and to be inspired by His true presence here with us. This [...]
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