Atrophy. The dictionary defines this as a gradual decline in effectiveness or vigor due to underuse or neglect. When I was a teenager, I played basketball with a few friends and decided to get fancy. Believing myself to be some famous basketball star, instead of the tall and uncoordinated oafContinue Reading
We live in farming country, so this parable is very near to our own lives for many of us. As Christians, we are supposed to become like Jesus. That is, He is the Divine Sower, and we are supposed to take the Word we receive here at the Mass andContinue Reading
I was humbled to be able to preach today. Deacon Bill Stankevitz and I switched weekends this month , and at the time, I didn’t realize the significance of today’s date. I am enamored with the written word. Poetry and prose make my heart leap with joy. No written wordContinue Reading
In this first reading today, we see a story most of us are probably very familiar with. David and Goliath. Sometimes we focus on David, sometimes we focus on Goliath. I want to focus on Saul and the Israelites for a moment. Notice what they are doing. They are quakingContinue Reading
“I do will it, be made clean,” I mentioned this yesterday in my homily, and here we find it today in the Gospel. The leper then mars this beautiful moment by not following Jesus’ command not to tell anyone, and it hinders Jesus’s work in the community. But can youContinue Reading
Our readings today are about listening. Every one of them mentions God speaking to someone. That’s where we find ourselves a lot of time during our prayers. We long for and hope to hear God speaking to us, but we end up dominating the conversation most of the time. OurContinue Reading
Anna waited. She waited almost her entire life in the temple, praying, worshipping, hoping. She waited for an encounter with Jesus Christ, with the Messiah. It took 84 years. She knew the law and the prophets, and she knew that there was a promised one who would deliver her peopleContinue Reading