“Team by team, reporters baffled, trumped, tethered, cropped Look at that low plane, fine, then Uh oh, overflow, population, common group But it’ll do, save yourself, serve yourself World serves its own needs, listen to your heart bleed Tell me with the Rapture and the reverent in the right, rightContinue 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
Today at the Cathedral, all of the Catechumens and Candidates of our diocese will be gathering together to be enrolled. Unless they decide not to, the Church intends to admit them to celebrate further the mysteries of the faith. The ceremony is called the Rite of Election and Call toContinue Reading
There is a prayer that we attribute to Saint Francis of Assisi that makes a few bold statements. In it, we ask not to be consoled, but to be channels of God’s grace to comfort, love, and understand others. That is a difficult thing to do. Just the other day,Continue Reading
Last night we had a bi-lingual service that set up the tone for Lent. With two sermons, one in English and one in Spanish, we saw the depth of God’s love for us. We also were reminded that conversion is not a superficial change, but one deep down inside ofContinue Reading
Interestingly, Ash Wednesday is one of the most attended Masses of the year. We pack ourselves into the pews to make a new start to our Christian lives. One by one, we walk forward to receive ashes on our foreheads to remind us that “you gonna die.” Quite the freeContinue Reading