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This Third Sunday of Advent is Gaudete Sunday in which we celebrate the joy that we know is coming to us in the future when Jesus comes again in glory.  Joy is in our future!  There is an Advent that we are still waiting for when Jesus... More Info →

In the gospel of Luke, chapter 3, Luke reports to us the news of an historical event that has taken place in the desert of Judea:  “In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and... More Info →

“What we call the beginning is often the end/And to make an end is to make a beginning./The end is where we start from.”(T.S. Eliot, “Little Gidding, V, Four Quartets)  As T.S. Eliot explored in his classic poetic work, Four... More Info →

This final Sunday of our liturgical year we celebrate the Solemnity of Christ the King.  Our prayer in honor of Christ the King leads us to an understanding of our belief that Jesus is the Universal King who is given... More Info →

There is evil in the world.  We can’t pick up a newspaper and read what is going on around the world without being aware that there is truly evil at work in the world.  The evil that exists in the world will manifest itself in bad... More Info →

During his lifetime it seems that Jesus spent a lot of time at the temple in Jerusalem. As achild he went there with Mary and Joseph, as was their custom, on all of the great holydays, feasts and celebrations. While there he even engaged the... More Info →

    In the twelfth chapter of the gospel of Mark one of the scribes comes up to Jesus and asks him to identify which commandment is the greatest.  The scribes in Jesus’ time were scholars of the law.  They... More Info →

In the tenth chapter of the Gospel of Mark we meet the blind Bartimaeus on the road to Jericho and in this encounter of the blind man with Jesus we recognize our own spiritual state at times. Sometimes we might also feel like the blind man whose... More Info →

I must confess that there were times when I was young, foolish and selfish and grumpy over the chores that I was required to finish that I grumbled to myself that my parents just had children so that they would have someone to do dishes, wash... More Info →

Every year the editors of “Forbes” magazine publish a list of the world’s richest persons.  Every year I look to see if my name has been added to that list yet.  The world has not yet figured it out.  I consider my self... More Info →