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Holy Trinity        May 30, 2021 Every year on this particular Sunday I struggle with preparing a homily.  The “easiest” homilies to write are the ones in Ordinary Time, those Sundays on which we are not celebrating one particular aspect or doctrine of our faith.  And so on Sundays in Ordinary Time priests and deacons often

The Solemnity of Pentecost,   May 23 The solemnity of Pentecost that we celebrate today marks the end and the goal of the Easter season. For us Christians, it is a memorial of the day the Holy Spirit descended upon the apostles and the Virgin Mary in the form of fiery tongues, an event that took

  Think about these scenarios for a second: You receive letter after letter soliciting money for a worthwhile charity. Your conscience starts gnawing at you, so you pull out your checkbook and cut them a check. A friend who has hurt you comes to you and apologizes and asks to be forgiven.  Part of you

“Whoever is without love does not know God . . . .” If you’ve ever sat through a performance review you know that they can go a number of different ways.  Sometimes they can be short and sweet — the kind that simply take a minute or two and end with, “Nice job.  Keep doing

5th Sunday of Easter       May 2, 2021 If you follow sports like soccer that I’m familiar with, or better yet, if you’ve ever played it, you know that there are basically two kinds of players.  And please, I’m not talking about good players and not-so-good players.  I’m thinking about the quiet ones and the talkers.