About 120 years ago, a woman entered a New York City department store during a heavy storm, wet and disheveled from the weather. Because business was slow that day, the sales clerks had gathered together and were talking baseball, even though there...
There are many stories of persons whose lives have been ruined by winning the lottery; the sudden acquisition of huge amounts of money that they didn’t have to work for ended up warping their values, poisoning relationships, and causing spiritual...
Last Sunday, if you recall, we contemplated how Jesus builds his Church by giving Simon and each one of us a new name that emphasizes our best personality trait in God’s eyes. Simon was given the name Rock (rendered poorly by the English word Peter;...
Today we should be in for a treat. Not candy, but a treat of the rarest, most precious commodities: LOVE And do we ever need it! Even on Christmas morning, even on Easter Sunday, even on Mother’s Day or Father’s Day, we can run out of it...
The first point to be made must be the one of how important the Catholic Church considers the birth of John the Baptist. For her it so important that it “trumps” the regular Sunday readings for the Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time. All three readings...
