by St. Ann Staff | May 15, 2016 | Sunday Homilies
Fr. Anthony DeMello, S.J. wrote a series of reflections on various stories and poems from eastern mysticism. One of them went like this: I used to be stone deaf. I would see people stand up and go through all kinds of gyrations. They called it dancing. It looked...
by St. Ann Staff | May 8, 2016 | Sunday Homilies
Have you ever spent so much time focused on getting to the goal that once you achieved it, you had no idea what came next? The new career mother, who has looked forward to the birth of their first child, now returns home with baby in tow, has all the friends and...
by St. Ann Staff | May 1, 2016 | Sunday Homilies
It is not ordinary, garden variety peace that Jesus promises us. “Not as the world gives, do I give it to you.” Hmm. What are you talking about, Jesus? That shalom is more than health and well being and absence of strife. Rather, it is about the stuff of the...
by St. Ann Staff | Apr 24, 2016 | Sunday Homilies
In a former parish where I was stationed, as I would drive into the car port, I would see stored in the rafters two barely use basketball hoops and backboards. And each time I saw them, I was saddened. You see, the hoops had been put up on the playground of the...
by St. Ann Staff | Apr 17, 2016 | Sunday Homilies
I saw a card while I was picking out birthday cards for my family which said on the front cover: You are my favorite “what if.” Though I am not sure why someone would send such a card, I confess, having just celebrated a reunion of the volunteers whom I worked with in...
