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.
The Gadarenes were Hellenistic Jews who had taken on much of the Roman pantheon of gods. They engaged in raising swine for the Roman temple sacrifices, unclean animals in the eyes of the Jews. Jesus went out into this country to reach a person bound by oppression, destitute, and afraid.Continue Reading
We as a Church gather together on this day to celebrate Pentecost Sunday. It’s hard to be in a celebratory mood after watching the news. Many of our cities are on fire, our people in turmoil, and our youth scared and hurting. The racial divide in this country has neverContinue Reading
My hands ache. You would think that with a yard the size of a postage stamp I’d not be so sore after mowing it. My neighbor started (mowing two yards mind you) about 30 minutes after I did. She finished long before I. I just mowed the yard, cut aContinue Reading
The internet age has brought forth the rise of the armchair warrior. During this time of the pandemic, we have seen an increase in this battalion of recliner combatants. Many think they are fighting the good fight, and maybe some are. If one were to cherry-pick a sentence from today’sContinue Reading
With everything going on, we all have questions. Each of us has missed an event in our lives, or in someone else’s lives, that makes us long for the time when we could gather freely. Graduations, weddings, college tours… all things we were expecting to be at or around. Mass. Continue Reading
“I hate you!” I remember exactly how I felt the first time I heard that from one of our girls. The sheer sense of failure that it evoked in me was always jarring. Whatever the cause of that statement, I immediately wanted to remedy it. I wanted to give in,Continue Reading