Today, election day, is a perfect day for prayer and fasting, a day when we should step away from the busyness of our lives and turn to God ...

Here we are, a nation on the eve of the eve of what may well be the most important election in recent history, and everything is still unde...

Newly Married - Swords Held High Today is our anniversary! Dear Diane and I married 48 years ago on November 2, 1968. You should not r...

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...