Homilies and Occasional Thoughts

The photo above is a final caress by Mom's great-grandson Asher, not long before her death. I suppose I am prejudiced in the...

Jane was born in Hamilton, Ontario, the third and youngest child of Sheldon and Jessie (née McInnes) Banwell. She had a lifelong love ...

Today’s Gospel has a winner, Lazarus, and a loser, the rich man. And a clear target: “those… who loved money.” Our first reading also ta...

In the Christian classic The Screwtape Letters , C.S. Lewis takes us into the classrooms of hell where a senior devil is instructing h...

A wonderful teacher at St. Anthony's gives her students a preview of the Sunday Gospel every Friday. This year she's teaching grad...

A homily on a holiday weekend ought to be fairly short. That’s what I’m aiming for, but I want to try an answer to a very big question: wh...

I read an article on a terrific blog this week: it's headed " Seven Reasons Your Sermons Are Boring ." That's a bit m...