What Easter Means
Wednesday, April 7th, 2010 Posted in writing | Comments Off on What Easter MeansWhat Easter means for us depends on not just what happened to Jesus, but what happens to us because of that. Put it more crudely, perhaps: Jesus died, rose, and will come again --- but so what? An analogy might ...
Recollection
Monday, March 22nd, 2010 Posted in writing | Comments Off on RecollectionOrdination and After: A 25th Anniversary Reflection (This was written in 1999, but 11 years later, I still think the same.) Twenty-five years ago this March (though March was an unusual time for priesthood ordinations, things in the ‘70's admitted some slippage) ...
This Joyful Season
Sunday, March 14th, 2010 Posted in writing | Comments Off on This Joyful SeasonOne of the Mass prayers calls Lent “this joyful season.” I find this a little surprising because I think of Lent as a time for seriousness, mortification, and self-denial. Not joy. But Lent can be a joyful season if we make ...
Respecting the Stone
Monday, February 22nd, 2010 Posted in writing | Comments Off on Respecting the StoneIn the story of Jesus in the desert, the tempter challenges Jesus to turn a stone into bread, but Jesus refuses, answering in the words of Scripture, “Man does not live on bread alone.” It all seems pretty straightforward. ...
Grace at Little Rock
Wednesday, February 10th, 2010 Posted in photo, writing | Comments Off on Grace at Little RockA few days ago, in front of a crowd of several hundred in the Varsity theater at Marquette University, 6 people in their mid-60’s reminisced about walking through a crowd of people who hated them, verbally abused them, and tried ...
