The priests brought the ark of the covenant of the LORD to its place beneath the wings of the cherubim in the sanctuary, the holy of holies of the temple. Solomon sought to continue the policy of his father, King David, to center all power — religious and political — in Jerusalem. He built the… Read More »
FEBRUARY42024
Junior, age 30, asked his mother for $1000. She said “no, you’ll just fritter it away.” He pouted, you never do anything for me. At that, she exploded. “Never do anything for you? I bore you in my womb for nine months. I nursed you for two years. I weaned you, fed you, clothed you,… Read More »
FEBRUARY32024
If I had been one of the apostles I’d have been upset. Jesus sent them out, they did their job, came back and were excited to report their success. Jesus knew how hard they had been working so he suggested they take some vacation days. However, when they got to the Galilean equivalent of Cancun… Read More »
FEBRUARY22024
Jesus did not help angels but rather the descendants of Abraham; therefore, he had to become like his brothers and sisters in every way. One of the Eucharistic prayers says it this way: Jesus is “like us in all things but sin.” What are the implications? Since learning is part of being human, Jesus had… Read More »
FEBRUARY12024
Back in the day I went to a leadership camp for the Boy Scouts. The lesson that stayed with me after all these years: He who can get ten people to work is more valuable than the one who does the work of ten. Jesus certainly knew that. He might have been the savior of… Read More »
JANUARY312024
There is a TV commercial where a little girl is sitting in the drivers seat and her father in leaning in the window giving instructions on how to be safe. When the picture backs up, you see that the little girl is, in fact, a grown woman — but to her father she will always… Read More »
JANUARY302024
Jesus said, “Do not be afraid; just have faith.” Ordinarily we think of doubt as the opposite of faith. Jesus suggests that actually fear is what makes faith difficult. If you think of it, doubt is something that lives in me. My doubts arise from my own perceptions of what is going on. Fear, on… Read More »
JANUARY292024
After Jesus had cured the man possessed by demons he told him: “Go home to your family and announce to them all that the Lord in his pity has done for you.” Then the man went off and began to proclaim in the Decapolis what Jesus had done for him. Becoming “missionary disciples” is the… Read More »
JANUARY282024
Sometimes it’s not what you say but how you say it that determines the meaning. Fr. Dennis was in a play in high school. The setting was in the Old West and the town was starving to death. Someone rushes in announcing that a wagon train was coming. One of the characters was supposed to… Read More »
JANUARY272024
As part of his assignment in the class on “how to be a good confessor” the student interviewed experienced confessors (including me!) about how to approach the sacrament. Looking back, what struck me was that adults almost always confessed either that they missed Mass on Sunday or some kind of sexual sin. However, sin has… Read More »
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