Homilies and Occasional Thoughts

Back in those happy days of full churches, a man came to Mass wearing a hat. The ushers asked him to take it off, but he refused. Several fo...

O ur parish is blessed this summer by the presence of Joseph McDaniel, a seminarian with the Oblates of St. Francis de Sales. A gifted teach...

"I'm back! Did you miss me?" When your spouse, parent, child or friend asks that question after returning from a trip, th...

I have been pastor of this parish for twelve years, four months and twenty-seven days. During that time we celebrated the parish’s 25 ...

Yesterday, the Vigil of Pentecost, I baptized eight adults from our R.C.I.A. program and confirmed a ninth. Two children, a baby and a...

For almost twenty years I’ve been thinking about something I heard at a funeral. The eulogist, the daughter of the deceased woman, loo...

Today we’re going to touch on some serious subjects.   Worry. Fear. Discouragement, and even depression. But I’d like to start on ...