Homilies and Occasional Thoughts

Dr. Tim Kostamo is an esteemed parishioner, a devoted husband and father of four, and a respected orthopedic surgeon. But he has spent...

Many of you know that we have an orthopedic surgeon in the parish. I’m old enough to find that rather comforting. After the men’s ...

It was a joy to welcome Ottawa Archbishop Terrence Prendergast--a good friend whom I first met when I was a high school student and he...

War is hell. Who can argue with these famous words of the Civil War general William Tecumseh Sherman? Certainly no one who has seen th...

My mother’s funeral liturgies , both the evening prayer and Mass the next day, will be a central memory of my priestly life, even if I...

I have already posted my mother's obituary and some thoughts I shared at her funeral Mass.  In this final post, I am pleased to s...

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...