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Learning to pray for ourselves
As you may have guessed from this blog, one of the delights of creation that I enjoy is music. I’m very much looking forward to singing with the angels & saints (God willing!) – and maybe learning...
View ArticleThe road to hell, and how we might avoid it (homily, 16th Sunday of Ordinary...
It was the first quarter of major seminary at Our Lady of the Lake/Mundelein Seminary. I had just graduated from college seminary, many of my classmates had finished pre-theology and still others were...
View ArticleMiracle in our midst (homily, 17th Sunday of Ordinary Time)
I imagine that many of us have had the occasion to go to a concert, conference or large gathering of some sort. Hearing the Gospel today, it isn’t hard to picture the gathering of these five thousand...
View Article‘Catholic in good standing’
It has been an interested last few weeks, with the election debates, campaign ads and many, many articles & blogs. Throughout this period, both among candidates and more locally, I have been...
View Article(2013) Palm Sunday: Gazing upon the cross
For the course of this homily, I’d like to invite you to turn your gaze to the crucifix above the high altar. We hear today the retelling of the drama of Christ’s passion – of the suffering that He...
View Article(2013) Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time: Superman, marriage, the military...
Over the last few decades, the character of Superman has become a rather legendary superhero that has become a part of American storytelling. Although not from Earth himself, his upbringing and family...
View ArticleFraternal correction, prophets & angel examples (Homily for the 26th Sunday...
At both seminaries I attended (Saint John’s college seminary in Los Angeles & Mundelein Seminary in Mundelein, Illinois, for the inquiring mind), there was in place a process for seminarians to...
View ArticleAdvent: renewing the wedding promise
Happy Advent! This evening marks the beginning of the new liturgical year (Happy New Year!) and the season of Advent. With the Vigil Mass and or Evening Prayer I of the 1st Sunday of Advent, we begin...
View ArticleGood news of great joy
Thirty five years ago, on October 16th, 1978, an unassuming young man – known by his friends simply as ‘Wujek’ (Polish for ‘uncle’) – reluctantly accepted the responsibilities of the papacy and the...
View ArticleUnconditional love and the invisible ‘but’ of contraception
As we listened to this Sunday’s Gospel (3rd Sunday of Ordinary Time, Cycle A), it wouldn’t be unreasonable to wonder at the actions of these two sets of brothers. All four are career fishermen, yet...
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