“Ten were cleansed, were they not? Where are the other nine? Has none but this foreigner returned to give thanks to God?” What is it that makes this one leper thankful, while the others take our Lord’s healing for granted? The key to understanding this passage is in one simple word, “foreigner.” The leper who […]
Read more "Trembling and Giving Thanks"As last Sunday was the first Sunday for our new pastor (Father Tom Shoemaker), I did not preach at Sunday Masses.
Read more "No sermon last Sunday (10-2)"If you were not at least a little scared by today’s Gospel, then I don’t think that you were paying attention. “My child,” Abraham says to the rich man, “remember that you received what was good during your lifetime while Lazarus likewise received what was bad; but now he is comforted here, whereas you are […]
Read more "Riches to be Feared"We showed the video for the 30th Annual Bishop’s Appeal on Sunday, so I did not write or deliver a sermon.
Read more "No Sermon 9/18"“What man among you having a hundred sheep and losing one of them would not leave the ninety-nine in the desert and go after the lost one until he finds it?” Our Lord presents us today with two practical examples of searching for and finding lost things. The second makes sense: A woman who has […]
Read more "Allowing God to Find Us"“If you are what you should be, you will set the world on fire.” These words were written by St. Catherine of Siena, a 14th Century mystic from Italy, and are a fitting response to the words of our Lord in today’s Gospel: “I have come to set the world on fire, and how I […]
Read more "Setting the World on Fire"“I guess you have to just make a leap of faith.” How often have we found ourselves saying or hearing these words, or something like them? Faith, to most of us, is the act you have to make when you just cannot understand, when rational thought fails to give an explanation. It seems a blind […]
Read more "Seeing is Not Believing"“I ain’t never seen a hearse with a luggage rack.” The words of this country song, even if not expressed with the grammatical cohesion that one could desire for the English language, ring true. Our earthly possessions are good for just that, for our life on earth, and that alone. At the end of our […]
Read more "Building Bigger Barns: The dangers of greed"It feels good to be asked for things. While sometimes we might grow impatient with people who are constantly asking for something from us, there is a satisfaction in knowing that someone else needs you. We all have a psychological need to be relied upon. This is why parents delight in giving gifts to their […]
Read more "Giving Good Gifts"As we gaze upon the Most Holy Eucharist, the true Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ, these words from Our Lord’s last discourse to His Apostles before His Passion in the Gospel according to St. John have a particular significance. When we look upon the Eucharist, exposed in the monstrance under […]
Read more "The Eucharist as a sign of God’s Mercy"
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