Brian Mullins is a permanent deacon in the Rockford Diocese who has been assigned by his Bishop to Saint Catherine of Genoa Parish in Genoa, Illinois.
Here I am, Lord, I come to do your will. We sang that today at Mass for the Responsorial Psalm. After some interactions this week, it’s no surprise that the Holy Spirit seeks to remind us that the words we speak have power. The first reading, in particular, struck meContinue Reading
So many of us take the simple gift of a community for granted. In a world where it is encouraged and lauded to spend more time in virtual communication than face-to-face interactions, it is tough for us to understand the leper in today’s Gospel. This man was isolated from society.Continue Reading
How many of you are tired? Tired of the pandemic, the masks, the hand sanitizer. Tired of politics. We want things to go back to the way they used to be, right? We’re starting to see kids go back to school, plans being made for events, people starting to goContinue Reading
Today after Mass, we took down the Christmas decorations and banners, replacing them with Ordinary Time’s green. Ordinary Time doesn’t mean “ordinary” (bland, stagnant, boring) in the sense of the modern word; it has its roots in the word ordinal. Ordinal numbers are numbers that designate the place of aContinue Reading
Storms. Father Francis and I were talking after Mass yesterday about that Gospel. Something he said really caught my attention. The apostles are sitting in this boat in the middle of the water, and the world is rocking around them. Fear of the storm causes them not even toContinue Reading
It’s such an odd incident here where we see Jesus walking on water. Not the walking on the water part. If Jesus is God, then walking on water or calming the storm; well, that just makes sense. The strange part is the Disciples thought they saw a ghost. Maybe evenContinue Reading
The title of this blog is kind of geeky, but these are the words that caught my ears today at Mass. In English, we say: “coheirs, members of the same body, and copartners.” These statements are important as we celebrate epiphany, the moment in which the revelation or manifestation ofContinue Reading