June 20th, 2017Tuesday of the Eleventh Week in Ordinary TimeLectionary: 3662 COR 8:1-9PS 146:2, 5-6AB, 6C- 7, 8-9AMT 5:43-48 If you turn on the news today, you’ll find many young men and women who have everything they could ever want materially.   Through their natural, God-given skills they have createdContinue Reading

Friday of the Ninth Week in Ordinary TimeLectionary: 357 TB 11:5-17PS 146:1B-2, 6C-7, 8-9A, 9BC-10MK 12:35-37 Here today we see the homecoming of Tobiah to Nineveh in which he brings not only the cure for Tobit’s blindness but also his new wife.   Tobit has been in darkness, blinded byContinue Reading

I remember as a young man seeing video of a volcano for the first time.  The lava was flowing down the mountain into the ocean.   When it touched the water, it roiled and exploded.   Such raw power, such destruction!   I was filled with fear that such aContinue Reading

I’ve told this story before.  The story of sitting on the riverbank of the Mississippi at the White House in Saint Louis, Missouri.   How that the sun was shinning, the birds singing, the river flowing it’s long easy strides.   That I was sitting there meditating on being thankful and howContinue Reading

I moved out of my parents home into a house they had generously given me when I was just shy of eighteen. I remember making many, many mistakes.   One that comes to mind this morning involved being in a hurry to get back to whatever I was doing butContinue Reading

The other day I was having a conversation with someone about being Holy.   My friend Jamie loaned me a book about this topic (How to Be Holy: First Steps to Becoming a Saint, Peter Kreeft) and it has been heavily on my mind.  While we were talking a few otherContinue Reading

“My dwelling, like a shepherd’s tent, is struck down and born away from me.”  A shepherd’s tent is a hastily constructed tent that is only intended for the night.  Something that if the wind picks up is blown away and no longer to be found.  When the shepherd’s move onContinue Reading