Listen to the Podcast The Gospel for today is the story of the loaves and the fishes. Of course this famous story is the precursor of the Eucharist. Jesus fed the crowd with a small amount of food with enough left over for each of the disciples to have a wicker basket full of the [...]
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Listen to the Podcast “The people who dwell in darkness have seen a great light, on those dwelling in a land overshadowed by death light has arisen.” This quote from today’s Gospel is definitely applicable to 2010 as well as it was to the first century. We live in a land overshadowed by death. Abortion [...]
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Listen to the Podcast. Today we celebrate the Blessed Virgin as the Mother of God. No, we don’t worship Mary as some of our separated brethren might think. We worship only God. But how can we worship Him and not hold His mother in the highest regard? After all, even before she was born, God [...]
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Listen to the Podcast Even though the Catholic Church year began on November 30, the first Sunday of Advent, we all live and work according to the secular calendar making this the last day of 2009. Some of us might say “good riddance”, and rightly so. The New Year’s Eve/New Year’s Day tradition in the [...]
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Listen to the Podcast. On the fifth day of Christmas my true love gave to me…….five golden rings. True ministry goes far beyond the giving of gifts. It requires the giving of self. That is the way of Him who did not cling to his priveleges, but emptied himself to share our struggles. When God’s [...]
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Listen to the podcast. I do want to give you an update on something I told you a couple of weeks ago. Regular parishioners know that I’m kind of militant when it comes to the secularization of our Christian traditions like replacing the greeting “Merry Christmas” with lame substitutes like the politically correct “happy holidays” [...]
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Listen to the Podcast We’re almost there! At my parish the first mass for Christmas is just a few hours away. I’ll be preaching at midnight mass which we celebrate at 10:00 pm. Considering the large turnout we always have, I’ve been working on my homily for a while. I also preach this weekend, so [...]
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In today’s Gospel we read of the birth of John the Baptist. Isn’t it odd that when Elizabeth’s neighbors and relatives gathered on the eighth day for the baby’s circumcision that they had already chosen a name for him? My wife and I have four kids and we didn’t let our neighbors and relatives pick [...]
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As we “wait in joyful hope for the coming of our Savior, Jesus Christ” our joy is sometimes interrupted by sadness. In fact, it seems to happen quite often. Maybe it’s our high expectations for this time of year that magnify small hurts, making them seem bigger than they really are. But statistics tell us [...]
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A friend directed me to a video on YouTube that I thought you might enjoy. It illustrates the frustration that many of us have with the politically correct, generic celebration of Christmas that’s being forced on us by certain elements of our secular society. Enjoy…..
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