Where 2 or 3 Are Gathered: Home Edition
Fifth Sunday of Lent: March 17, 2013 Gospel: John 8: 1-11 Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. But early in the morning he arrived again in the temple area, and all the people started coming to him, and...
View ArticleYour MISSION….. Go!
For Lent this year our pastoral region created a new form of parish mission. It was in large part the result (or the fault, depending on your viewpoint!) of the diocesan Christ at the Center...
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An Oasis During Lent
A few weeks ago, I had the great pleasure of a week’s vacation in Costa Rica. This was hardly a sacrificial experience for the 2nd week of Lent, as I played in the warm waters of the Pacific Ocean with...
View ArticleHitting the Wall at 80
Hitting the wall at eighty, even if it happens metaphorically, is never easy. It was a rough Lent. It seemed to go on forever (as did winter). Wasn’t it at least 100 days long? We’ve all been...
View ArticleFruits of Lent
During Easter week my wife and I went out to dinner at our local Mexican restaurant and got to talking with Jose’, the restaurant owner, who happens to be a fellow parishioner. We were all talking...
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This Lent, consider the Pope Francis’ call to mission…James Havey has
Maryknoll missioners in Cambodia, L to R: Sr. Mary Little MM, Kathy Havey, James Havey MKLM, Sr. Julia Shideler MM, Sr. Helene O’Sullivan MM, Sr. Ann Sherman MM, Suzanne Scott MKLM In recent his recent...
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Do Not Be Afraid to Dream of Great Things!
A little over one year ago, on March 13, 2013, the College of Cardinals elected Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the Archbishop of Buenos Aires, as the 265th successor of St Peter. He chose the name Francis,...
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Soul Satisfaction
Luke 9:24-25 For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will save it. What profit is there for one to gain the whole world yet lose or forfeit himself?...
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Purification and Enlightenment
One of the most challenging, most exciting and most meaningful of the “jobs” I did as a Director of Religious Education for the thirty years that I was in that profession was working with the Rite of...
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Dry, Barren, and … Hopeful?
A few weeks ago, I happened to have two different conversations with two very different people in two very different places about the exact same thing: Spiritual dryness. Both people talked about not...
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