Ramblings on the Holy Trinity and Family

My mom should have been a spy; if caught she would never give the torturers the time of day, let alone any family of state secrets.

Rambling on Haunted Convents

…a Polish priest retired to a former Polish convent filled with Polish nun’s phantoms? What’s not to like?

Rambling on Bishops

The wrath of a bishop going through a canonical process is like herpes; it always comes back.

Rambling on Discerning a Priestly Vocation

All right, how do you know you have a vocation to the priesthood? Many young men think of St. Paul being knocked off the horse and a blazing light from heaven announcing their sacerdotal calling; but it is rarely, if ever like that. So I propose some indicators that might reveal that the Lord is […]

SAVING ANOTHER FROM PIZZA AND THE BURDENS OF LENT

I rarely, if ever, do something heroic, but isn’t Lent the time to attempt it? A certain lady of the parish informed me that she intended to give up pizza for Lent. Shortly after Ash Wednesday we found ourselves at a reception that was serving, among other things, pizza. Taking the initiative of saving her […]

Rambling on Mass times stopping the spread of Christianity

The pagan Romans had it all wrong; the arrest, torture and killing of the small Jewish sect known as Christians was not necessary to stamp it out. If they were serious about ending the heresy that threatened to dethrone Jupiter, Venus et al from the pantheon of heaven, they simply should have asked the Christian […]

Rambling on Chicken changing the World and the Sixth Sunday of Ordinary time (B)

What’s the top reason for changing Mass times? They are as numerous as the number of parishioners but my favorite reason for changing the hour of the Eucharist happened last year–“Father, can we move this Mass to an earlier time; they serve fried chicken at the Senior Center when that Mass starts.” No priest in […]

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