Recently in the Church we celebrated the feast of the Epiphany. The story of the Magi, on a journey, guided by a light from the heavens to give their gifts to Jesus, is an archetype of a Vocation. Simply put, our individual Vocation is to give our unique gifts that we bring on our life…
Category: The Catholic Faith
Peace on Earth: Can it Be?
The day after Christmas, I woke to a duet of Bing Crosby and David Bowie singing “Little Drummer Boy”. While Bing sings the traditional “Come they told me….” David sings a harmony “Peace on earth, can it be?” It is a powerful song, but also it is a question we all have in our hearts,…
Why Proclaim Christ as King? This Feast is Very Difficult…. It is meant to be!
Just before we celebrated Christ the King, I heard a long time parishioner of the parish I was visiting, share with another parishioner, that she was not comfortable with the title of Christ the King. It seemed too political. I felt I could understand her objection. If you want to ruin the family Thanksgiving dinner…
We are all Blind, until we hear the Voice of Jesus, the One Who can Make us See (Mk 10:46-52)
I went to a diocesan youth rally with our Confirmation students this week. The presenter blindfolded several student volunteers, and brought them to the front of the more than 700 students in a filled gymnasium. He asked them to search for a hidden object in the audience. The crowd was allowed to yell out directions…
Servant Leadership: New Business Principle, or Ancient Teaching of Jesus? (Mk 10:35-45)
The Gospel is filled with “Oxymorons” (a combination of words that have opposite or very different meanings; e.g. jumbo shrimp). The Gospel says you must die to live, empty yourself to be filled, give to receive. This Sunday, the 29th in Ordinary Time, we will hear that a leader is one who serves! For…
Is Jesus calling you to sell all you have and follow HIM? (Mk 10:17-30)
This Sunday’s Gospel (28th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Mk 10:17-30) was the passage through which I heard my call to enter the Conventual Franciscans. In this passage, Jesus looks on the man who ran up to him “Loved him and said to him, ‘You are lacking one thing, go and sell what you have, and…