Seven years ago a friend of mine from college – Paul – died of cancer. A few days before his funeral Mass his sister called me and asked if I would deliver the homily – to which I agreed, though I was terrified. I decided to go to his funeral via the March for Life in...
It was C.S. Lewis who popularized the phrase: Jesus is either liar, lunatic or Lord. Meaning that either He knew He wasn’t God and deceived people – on purpose; He either thought He was God but wasn’t – deceiving Himself; or He is in fact God Incarnate. And the...
VOCATIONS WEEKENDSt. John the Evangelist ParishAgawam, MA When he arrived in Milan in 384, a young St. Augustine had grown dissatisfied with the gnostic world view he had embraced for some time. He began to look beyond the materialistic world in search of things...
The father lost his job, and they moved to the city to find work. They couldn't afford to buy their own house, so they lived in the basement of someone else's house, paying a large rent for the tiny space. It was not the most comfortable situation – mom, dad, and five...
I have always been a big fan of the Peanuts cartoon. In fact, Charlie Brown Christmas is one of my favorite holiday movies. Recently I came across something I never knew about the movie … When CBS approached Charles Schultz to do a Christmas special featuring the...
Vocations HomilyBlessed Sacrament, Greenfield I don’t know about you, but I love thunderstorms… When I was a kid, my grandfather and I would sit on his big front porch and watch the storm … the flashes of lightning and peels of thunder were just strangely magnificent....