On several occasions in recent years I've mentioned how our society is moving not simply away from God, but actively against God and His...

Readings: Eph 4:32-5:8; Ps 1; Lk 13:10-17 --------------- While I was teaching a group of teens in a pre-Confirmation class, a young man ask...

A few days ago I included a long quote from a book Pope Benedict XVI wrote long before he was pope [See this post: October 18 ]. In it Pope ...

Readings: Eph 4:7-16; Ps 122; Lk 13:1-9 We always seem to be asking God, “Why?” Bad things happen and we want to know why. Good people suffe...

Yesterday and t oday I have two rare days off. My calendar is completely empty. There is nothing that demands my presence -- no meetings, no...

Readings: Eph 2:1-10; Ps 100; Luke 12:13-21 ------------------   That’s quite a man Jesus describes in today’s Gospel passage – a real su...

The ubiquitous media has truly altered the way we observe and experience weather events. A week or so ago we began to hear about Hurricane M...

Too many citizens vote for one political party or another almost out of habit. Or as one parishioner said to me: "My family have been D...

Readings: Hb 1:2-3; 2:2-4; Ps 95; 2 Tm 1:6-8,13-14; Lk 17:5-10   --------------------------- The deacons in my previous parish on Cape Cod...