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  At times I meet parents who are Catholic and come from a long tradition of Catholic belief and family tradition.  These parents have several children who have never been baptized or catechized in the Catholic faith that formed their parents... More Info →

Seeds planted – fruit harvested.  We live in a cyclical world.  As Qoheleth, the preacher says in Ecclesiastes, “There is an appointed time for everything, and a time for every affair under the heavens.  A time to be born, and a time to... More Info →

    All of us from time to time have enjoyed playing “peek-a-boo” with an infant.  For an infant, only what is seen continues to exist.  When we hide ourselves behind some sort of veil, an infant reacts with confusion and concern, because for a... More Info →

At this time in our culture we can see a “crisis of commitment” building. It seems that more and more our young people are having difficulty committing themselves to a life path and making a decision for life. Everything today seems so... More Info →

    I love to watch small children enter the church, dip their hands into the font that contains the waters of their baptism and bless themselves with the rule of faith that has been handed down to us from the apostles and that was contained in... More Info →

    Living in Southern California, the land of wild fires and firestorms, and having been born in Kansas, where prairie fires can sweep over thousands of acres, I am quite familiar with the way that a fire can change the landscape of our lives... More Info →

     One thing that I have learned over the years in visiting Kansas during the summer is that if you step out into a pasture where there are cattle, you stand a very good chance of stepping in something that is not so pleasant.  There is a... More Info →

     In the Wizard of Oz, after a long and fantastic journey of self-discovery, Dorothy sums up what she has learned along the way by affirming that if ever she were to look for her heart’s desire, she would not search somewhere far away ... More Info →

   Through the sacrament of baptism we are incorporated into Christ.  Christ takes up his dwelling within us through the indwelling Spirit and we take up our dwelling in the Body of Christ that is the Church.  In this way we begin our sharing in... More Info →

 “In my Father’s house there are many dwelling places.  If there were not, would I have told you that I am going to prepare a place for you?  And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back again and take you to my self, so that where... More Info →