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You have to put the past behind you.  That is where the past belongs, behind you.  It is a great temptation to look back on days gone by and think that the best of life lies in the past.  We think of the past as “the glory days”... More Info →

     Today in our gospel we see that Jesus and the apostles have a little economic crisis on their hands.  There is a vast number of people to feed and few resources with which to feed them.  Jesus gives Philip a... More Info →

 Last Sunday Jesus sent out the apostles on an apostolic mission to preach the gospel and to call people to repentance.  Today they return to him after a successful mission of ministering to the needs of the people by healing,... More Info →

When people have specialized skills in our culture today they often go into business for themselves and become independent contractors.  They know that they have a valuable commodity to offer people that the people really... More Info →

 Life can be hard at times.  One of the consequences of the fall due to original sin is that life will contain its share of difficulties and pains.  We earn our living now by the “sweat of our brow” and even the... More Info →

The writings from the Book of Wisdom that we encounter in our first reading today show the development of faith and knowledge of God in the centuries before the birth of Jesus.  This journey of a greater knowledge and understanding of... More Info →

 We live in stormy times.  For as long as I can remember the Church has been going through one storm after another.  The seas of the world have not been calm for very long at any given stretch.  From the time... 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... More Info →

September 11, 2001 is a day that will be remembered by all who are old enough to have experienced the events of that day.  On the West Coast we woke up to an unthinkable, horrible scene that was being played over and over again by... More Info →

At this time in our culture it seems that there is a “crisis of commitment” building.  It seems that more and more young people are having difficulty committing themselves to a life path and making a decision for... More Info →