by St. Ann Staff | Apr 28, 2013 | Sunday Homilies
“Then, I, John, saw a new heaven and a new earth.” I don’t know about you, but I am very ready for that new heaven and new earth. I grow tired of reading the papers, watching the news, surfing the net only to hear the same, tired story of this murder or that tragedy...
by St. Ann Staff | Apr 21, 2013 | Sunday Homilies
There is an unwritten liturgical rule somewhere which states that you may not have a funeral mass without the song “On Eagles Wings.” I don’t know where that law is, but it’s there somewhere. Yet, for all of its familiarity, that refrain resonates with us...
by St. Ann Staff | Apr 14, 2013 | Sunday Homilies
For most of my life that I have been praying and studying scriptures, until 2:53 Saturday pm, I have pictured this scene in the gospel along the lines of a scene from Fiddler on the Roof. In the musical, there is this wonderful moment where Tevye, a man trying to hold...
by St. Ann Staff | Apr 7, 2013 | Sunday Homilies
When Yosef saw that his seventeen-year-old granddaughter, Eli, had gotten a tattoo on her arm, Yosef began to cry. It was not so much that Eli had gotten a tattoo. It was the nature of the tattoo she got. Eli’s tattoo was this sequence of numbers: 1-5-7-6-2-2 When...
by St. Ann Staff | Mar 31, 2013 | Sunday Homilies
A teacher was working with her first grade kids, trying to teach them about the seven last words that Jesus spoke on the cross. “Does anyone know the last words that Jesus spoke before he died?” she asked. Little Johnny, after a bit of a pause, raised his hands...
by St. Ann Staff | Mar 28, 2013 | Sunday Homilies
Much has been made in the media of our new dear Pope Francis. His style certainly has caught people’s attention. Perhaps it is merely the media fascination with something that is new. Or the media being introduced to what you and I know to be Christianity’s best kept...
