You might find this hard to believe but I have been struggling to find the right words for my homily this morning… I know … I’m usually not one for a shortage of words! But maybe its been difficult because this last six weeks have been difficult. Maybe this situation...
Is anyone familiar with the show ‘Hoarders’? Now – let me say first that I am not one for exploiting people’s illnesses … it is a terrible disease. Nevertheless, I could not help but think a profound comparison between that type of illness and what we celebrate today,...
What if our first reading of the Mass today were to begin a little differently … You know what has happened all over the world, beginning in China with the report of a virus, how that virus began to spread from country to country. It made people deathly sick, killing...
I am sure that most of us, if not all, have had the experience of being in a dark room – perhaps while lying in bed just before it is time to wake up or in the midst of a sleepless night. The longer you linger in that darkness, the more your eyes begin to adjust. As...
Yesterday I reflected briefly on how these Paschal Liturgies are different this year. Where is everyone? I could not help but think, today, Good Friday, perhaps may not be all that different than the first Good Friday – surely, people were gathered on the hill of...
This Holy Thursday is different. In a normal setting, I would be looking out among the faithful gathered to commemorate the Last Supper– the evening when gathered with His apostles, the first priests, Jesus gave us the Eucharist as His Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity...