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
A friend of mine posted on Facebook the other day that the “O Antiphons” were coming! As you noticed this morning, I proclaimed that. That’s not something we usually do at our Parish for Daily Mass. It highlights something! We are getting close! They are there to remind us thatContinue Reading
Some of the statements from Isaiah in the first reading can seem pretty confounding. From exile, Isaiah writes that God forms both light and darkness, well-being, and woe. That brings to mind the question: why do bad things happen to good people? This Advent is probably unlike any otherContinue Reading
My parents had this rule growing up that said the house had to be clean before my friends could come over. I was not too fond of that rule. So much so that it was pretty rare that they visited; instead, I’d beg to go to their house. IContinue Reading
Rest. That’s what we are all after. Our lives are hectic. With all the changes our society is going through with the pandemic, the evident angst and anger of our political process, and the pressure of Christmas in a struggling consumer-driven economy, these things fill our lives and weighContinue Reading
I’ve been reading a lot about visions of Heaven and visions of Hell lately. So much so that I’ve been dreaming about it, and it has occupied my thoughts. I also keep seeing people “jokingly” make comments about Hell where they seem to think that it will be some decadentContinue Reading