by St. Ann Staff | Jan 1, 2013 | Sunday Homilies
My brother’s wife’s sister’s daughter (aka, my sister in law’s niece) gave birth to a new baby on Christmas day. (I have no idea what that makes her to me – a cousin twice removed by marriage? Twin sons of different mothers? Nothing?) Despite our best suggested names...
by St. Ann Staff | Dec 30, 2012 | Sunday Homilies
Henry Ward Beecher, the famed preacher and orator once said that the two most important gifts that parents can give to their children are roots and wings. It begins with roots, as it has to – to protect, love, nurture, and raise the most helpless infant in the animal...
by St. Ann Staff | Dec 25, 2012 | Sunday Homilies
Christmas carols have a way of sticking with you, don’t they? You hear one line of a tune and “Frosty” stays in your head the whole day. Or a different one catches you and now your stomach can only think of ‘Chestnuts roasting on open fires’. Or you spend the entire...
by St. Ann Staff | Dec 23, 2012 | Sunday Homilies
No one has to tell small children to be excited this time of year. Virtually EVERYTHING has the possibility of making them jump up and down, clap their hands gleefully and twirl excitedly in circles. Christmas carols. Cookies. Beautiful ornaments. Lights on trees....
by St. Ann Staff | Dec 16, 2012 | Sunday Homilies
The world is supposed to end this coming Friday, 12-21-12, the last day of the Mayan Calendar. I confess I had not given it much thought until yesterday (Friday). And then, with the unfolding of the events in Newtown, Connecticut, I thought, “Maybe it would be a...
by St. Ann Staff | Dec 9, 2012 | Sunday Homilies
I got put on hold yesterday while waiting for a reply from the book section of Catholic Supply. Thinking that it was a Catholic store, attuned to the rhythm of Advent, I thought I might hear some Gregorian chant or perhaps the “O-Antiphons” or something liturgically...
