Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Like you, I have been dismayed, angry, saddened, despairing — and sometimes encouraged by people doing the right thing — over the last ten days. Our country has plunged...
Have you ever felt that there just had to be more to life than getting up, going to work (or school), coming home, eating, watching some TV (or YouTube or playing some video...
Whenever I think about suffering, two passages from St. Paul’s letter to the Romans come to mind. St. Paul knew suffering. He knew physical suffering (beaten with a cat o’ nine tails...
It may seem that this is a terrible time, and in many ways, it is. People are suffering and dying from COVID-19. Many people lost their jobs. Others who are keeping their jobs are...
Dear Sisters and Brothers in Christ, Here is a link to some thoughts about the Church and the world in an epidemic. You are all in my prayers, Please reach out to me if...
In most years, we add things for Lent. I know, I know, we’re supposed to give things up for Lent, things like chocolate and beer and anything else that might be a little celebratory. ...
If our life really is most deeply about our relationship with God, then it is about Jesus. It is by looking at Jesus and spending time with Jesus that we see who God really...
By the time you read this, 2019 will be over and 2020 will have started. It’s a new decade, and we are one fifth of the way through the twenty-first century. The winter holidays...
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in one pretty and well preserved piece, but to skid across the line broadside, thoroughly used up, worn out, leaking...
My friend, Pastor Geoff Sinibaldo, authored a blog post entitled, “Resistance Is Not Futile (No Matter What the Borg Might Say),” and something he said really got me thinking. (You can read the entire...