Party On, Jesus
The following is the homily I gave for the Masses I celebrated this past weekend in Horeshoe Bay and Austin, Texas… hence the Longhorn bias…
read moreEven Better Than Disneyland
I may have felt a little nervous on the morning of my ordination but the next morning, I was in a PANIC.
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Step Into Christmas
This morning, I had some pre-Christmas errands to run and I found myself on the corner of Bloor and Bay, for those of you who…
read moreTired of Christmas Already!
This weekend we celebrate the first weekend of Advent… and I am already tired of Christmas. Yes, I too got excited when I walked into…
read moreSeen The Lights Go out on Broadway… or, The Importance of Doing Your Job
Ironically, I had started writing the article before the images of floods and disaster in my home state of New Jersey and of New York…
read moreThe Big Weekend (Part One)
Then one morning, after loosing track of just how many steps I had taken and how many days had passed, I had arrived at May 19. So I simply did what I had been doing every day for the past six years; I took one more step.
read moreJesus and Power Tools
This homily was given for the Sunday Readings located here. Today’s Gospel, the one where Jesus is appears to be telling his followers to cut…
read moreThe Avengers Initiative
One of the advantages of having a Paulist lead you on a retreat is that cinematic offerings are usually not off of the table the way they might be under Jesuit or Franciscan guidance. And there was probably more than a little divine inspiration when he suggested on closing the retreat with a movie: The Avengers.
read moreOncology and Ontology
This was the cosmic equivalent of either Jim Perry or Bob Eubanks turning over the Queen of Diamonds on the game show Card Sharks and all I had to do was shout, “Lower!” Yet when the Game Show host Fate turned over that next card, it turned out to be the King of Spades, I was one of that 5-10%.
read moreThe Book of Job
In the Old Testament Class for which the paper was being written, we discussed how the personification of divine insight in the Hebrew Scriptures is often referred to as “Woman Wisdom.” But sitting in a waiting room to find out if I had cancer, I could not help but wonder if I was also being joined by “Dame Irony.”
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