by Fr. Bill | Jan 23, 2011 | Pastor's Pen
Helping hands… You may have occasionally seen an unknown face around the St. Ann campus recently. It belongs to a man named Kevin McLaughlin. Kevin is a member of St. Gerard Magellan Parish and he is good at ‘fixing things.’ I ran into my old soccer coach, Fr. Tom...
by Fr. Bill | Jan 23, 2011 | Sunday Homilies
If you had an advertising slogan for the beginning of Jesus’ ministry, what would you choose? I have a confession. I really don’t care, one way or the other, if the Clydesdales are going to be in a Superbowl commercial. But this week, I learned that they are,...
by Fr. Bill | Jan 16, 2011 | Sunday Homilies
If you could design and name any phone app you wanted, what would you call it and what features should it have? I got a new phone the other day, ‘cause the old one was, well, old. (= 2 ½ years old = ancient). If you don’t know, phones these days have all kinds of...
by Fr. Bill | Jan 9, 2011 | Sunday Homilies
What do Baptisms and Belly Flops have in common? I recently made the mistake (oops – I mean the choice) to join Facebook. Mostly, I wanted to see some pictures of a friend’s pool house that now had six tons of tree resting through its roof. [I am still figuring out...
by Fr. Bill | Jan 9, 2011 | Pastor's Pen
Of Crystal Balls… One does not need to be clairvoyant to know that some things will be changing in 2011. A quick visit to the USCCB (United States Catholic Conference of Bishops) tells me that beginning the first Sunday of Advent, Nov. 27, 2011, the new translations...
