Today’s Gospel from Luke (21:5-19) paints a bleak picture. Although it is written to suggest that these “signs” of the end of the world will occur sometime in the future, in reality Luke was describing life in the first century Palestine. For the...
This year it happened. I always swore that one year I would turn the porch light on and there would be no kids trick or treating. Yes, this year it happened. I will remember 2013 as the year Halloween died. Now it was raining and there was some fog...
It was recently revealed that the “Common Core” curriculum crams partisan political ideas into children’s minds. For example, a grade school grammar exercise has students write, “[The president] makes sure the country’s laws are fair,” “Government...
Who is your judge? I mean in the ultimate sense who do you look to as the judge of the true worth of your actions and your worth as a person? Some of us turn to our parents and judge our actions and our lives on their approval alone. Some of us look...
Each year it seems to get worse. I can remember just a few short years ago when the stores battled as to which of them would open at 4:00 AM on Black Friday. It kept getting moved back to a point when I remember Midnight as the time that the...
There was an Israeli soldier named Colonel David Marcus who was killed during Israel’s war of independence in 1948. In his wallet was found a parable reflecting in a very beautiful way on the meaning of life and death. The parable said: I am...
Is it just me, or are there others out there who are getting more and more annoyed with these almost daily “personal interest” stories on the internet, television, or in newspapers that feature some new “breakthrough” for homosexuals? Whether it...
During the remainder of this month, the liturgy focuses our attention on the end times. In the Gospel (Luke 20:27-38) for the 32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time, Jesus encounters those who like to test and trap him with outlandish examples of “what...
