Ordinary Time

The readings today are a powerful reminder that as Christians we cannot be people who sit on the fence.   We have to throw all our chips o...

Change is hard for people.   They don't like it when things change.  So many times I have heard someone declare "That's it!...

It is interesting to me that the readings for today are about famine and feasts.   For the last five days, I have consumed no food whats...

When I was in college, I worked as a computer lab assistant.   It was my job to be there to make sure that anyone who needed to use a comp...

I was going to save the following homily for a future date.   The more I tried to write the more it felt as if I were making a sermon out of...

I went on a four-day men's weekend a few years ago.   It was a compelling experience.   During that weekend I began to realize just ho...

I remember an episode of iCarly in which one of the young protagonists wants to meet the "fattest priest alive."    When they fi...

In the first reading for today, we see Moses receiving the Decalogue from God. These are the ten commandments. There are very few peop...

Today was the First Sunday of Lent.  The readings speak of the familiar theme of Jesus going into the desert before beginning his public m...

In today's first reading we begin to see the fall of the Kingdom of Israel from grace. Solomon started taxing the people tremendous...

I see many people criticize the Church. They claim that all of the rules are 'manmade' and that none of this outward stuff can...

Our society has done a fantastic job of convincing us that we are created to be a sinful and vice-filled people.   "I'm a Christi...

So many of us take the simple gift of a community for granted. In a world where it is encouraged and lauded to spend more time in virtu...