by St. Ann Staff | Feb 17, 2013 | Sunday Homilies
It would be easy, wouldn’t it, if all temptations came with some kind of tangible warning sign – perhaps flames of fire surrounding them, or with a flashing neon light, or had a warning sound, blaring like a police siren, or even the vibration of a phone app to tell...
by St. Ann Staff | Feb 13, 2013 | Sunday Homilies
I know the question is a little backward. But please notice that I am not asking you what you are giving up, or what practice you are choosing, or even how you and the world will be different because of this Lent. Rather the question is: What aren’t you going to do...
by St. Ann Staff | Feb 10, 2013 | Sunday Homilies
My brother Joe quoted a friend who – in the middle of a number of family crises in a row – said “Good grief, another rotten growth opportunity… Where can I find a prayer for a shallow life?” “Where can I find a prayer for a shallow life?” We know the question:...
by St. Ann Staff | Feb 3, 2013 | Sunday Homilies
During my roaming college campus ministry years, I did my share of retreats with college students. There was one prayer experience that still sticks in my memory, all these years later. The place was Our Lady of the Lake Parish, on the outskirts of Camdenton, near the...
by St. Ann Staff | Jan 25, 2013 | Sunday Homilies
Many of us have been asked the question: “If you were to be stranded on a desert isle with just one ________(fill in the blank – woman, man, book, tool, passage from the bible, etc) what would it be? And though I usually don’t give a lot of time to that question, it...
by St. Ann Staff | Jan 6, 2013 | Sunday Homilies
Most Christians would not list King Herod among the good guys in the story of salvation. Though he was a great builder, and did rebuild the temple for the Jewish people, he also built many other temples to other gods in an attempt to pacify the people under his rule....
