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.
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
For Catholics, Christmas has only begun. Though many decorations have had to come down for the weather, the church remains decorated for the season, not just a single day. The scriptures the past few days at Mass have also reminded us that life is short and that our continual goalContinue Reading
This morning as I was sitting in the pew praying, I was struck by how much I was aching. My shoulders ache so much that it was hard to put on my shirt this morning. My chest feels as if I was in a car wreck. You know that seatbeltContinue Reading
Today’s Gospel reminds me of that famous quote from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” We seem to have that sort of attitude in today’s society. People have started naming their kids after things they enjoy: a-RON-zhello and le-MON-zhello. You know OrangeContinue Reading
My youngest and I watched both Sister Acts last night, and during the second one, we began to talk about angels. I was pretty impressed by the amount of knowledge she had of the imagery used to describe them in the Bible. The scriptures tell the seraphim to have sixContinue Reading