Category Archives: Homily
The Spirit Goes Where She Wills
What’s your favorite song? The one you turn up the volume for. And then listen to one more time. And when you’re alone, you sing along to it. Did you know that song, and he happiness it brings you, is … Continue reading
Believing, Belonging and Being
Today is our parish feast day, Good Shepherd Sunday! Recently there was a a study done on the names of Catholic churches in the United States. Out of 20,150 Catholic places of worship in this country, 80 percent of them … Continue reading
Forever Young
Forever young. I want to be forever young. You may recognize these lines from the 1984 song by Alphaville. They echo an ancient longing of humanity, expressed in stories and art from ancient myths to today’s film and literature. It … Continue reading
Temptations of the Body of Christ
Today we have an amazing insight into a very personal test, a struggle of Jesus. All three synoptic gospels relate this event, but it happened when Jesus was entirely alone. So it must have been a painful memory he shared … Continue reading
Lent for Adults
A couple of weeks ago we heard the famous Hymn to Love by St. Paul. You remember. It’s the amazing passage that tells us what love is and isn’t. In this hymn, Paul writes: When I was a child, I … Continue reading
