Homilies and Occasional Thoughts
Monday, January 28, 2019
How to Survive While Listening to a Sermon
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At the end of my homily at one of the Sunday Masses, I quoted extensively from an article I read many years ago. I'd kept a yellowed ...
The homily is a two-way street (3C)
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I was looking for a funny quotation with which to begin my homily on Sunday, and I found one without any trouble. Lord Hawkins, a 19th...
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Monday, January 21, 2019
Northing Ordinary About This Sunday (2.C)
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Today is the third day of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. This is observed around the world every year between January 18 and ...
Sunday, January 13, 2019
Some Church Fathers on the Baptism of the Lord
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I spent a delightful hour and a half with our grade seven class on Friday afternoon, walking through the various parts of the Mass. ...
Sunday, January 6, 2019
Offering Our Gifts (Epiphany.C)
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Our assistant pastor is Italian. Very Italian—I have the parmesan cheese bills to prove it. Father Giovanni delighted the congre...
Saturday, December 29, 2018
'A Home Away from Home' for the Eternal Son of God (Holy Family.C)
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Last Christmas we gave away hundreds of copies of a book about Christmas by the popular author Scott Hahn. It was called Joy to the Worl...
Monday, December 24, 2018
Christmas - a Lifeline and a Love Letter
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If you have elderly parents, or are elderly yourself, you’re probably familiar with the alarms worn around the neck or on a bracelet. ...
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