Homilies

The day began in the usual way. I awoke looking forward to getting through my to-do list, which had been recently neglected due...

As children, we take most things for granted. The people, places, and things around us are just there for us to experience. We ...

Having arrived at the parish on short notice and somewhat unprepared, it has taken almost a year for things to settle down enou...

Some people may look at the picture above and see an empty church, but what I see is a church full of pews waiting to be filled...

It started with a few emails that were quite obvious in their intent. They would offer some amazing deal that was too good to b...

Born into a busy home, the youngest of seven, I had many people to look up to. Brothers, sisters, parents, and a constant strea...

He was smart, a scientist by nature, preferring physical evidence over belief as proof of something's existence. He lived at a ...

A friend traveling in Europe recently sent me a picture of the sanctuary at Wilten Abbey Basilica in Innsbruck. It comes at a t...

When things get tough, as they say, the tough get going! But these days it is getting harder to go anywhere. Even people of fai...

There is an old adage of the carrot and the stick, where a horse is trained by being led by dangling a carrot just in front of ...

Everyone has a happy place, somewhere they go, something they do, someone they run to that brings them a sense of peace in this...

Last week, I attended the annual Archbishop’s Reception, which is usually a very orderly affair. This year it was billed as a m...