by St. Ann Staff | Mar 6, 2016 | Sunday Homilies
I have always been a sucker for stories of people who were lost who then became found. Early in my priesthood, I somehow got on the mailing list for Covenant House, and their begging letters would always tell the stories of the runaways who came to the big city with...
by St. Ann Staff | Feb 28, 2016 | Sunday Homilies
Things had not been going well for Satan and his minions. They thought they had everything sowed up that Friday on the hillside outside the city of Jerusalem. But then, the impossible happened – that damnable resurrection and suddenly all their work was undone. After...
by St. Ann Staff | Feb 21, 2016 | Sunday Homilies
It had been a rainy morning. When the bus left us off at the base of the mountain of the Transfiguration, it was clear that the top of the mountain was shrouded in clouds. There is this harrowing taxi drive up the mountain (and even more harrowing coming down). A...
by St. Ann Staff | Feb 14, 2016 | Sunday Homilies
“One does not live by bread alone.” It is the first return shot by Jesus to the temptations of the devil. It is the first response of the Son of God about that ongoing struggle against sin and the forces of the evil one to teach us, his brothers and sisters, about...
by St. Ann Staff | Feb 10, 2016 | Sunday Homilies
For the first time in nearly six years, I went to the eye doctor this Monday. I confess, I only did it because my glasses are starting to show some wear in terms of the protective film that covers them. Not because I thought I needed a new prescription. I thought they...
by St. Ann Staff | Feb 7, 2016 | Sunday Homilies
I have an image in my head of an older St. Peter, before he was martyred. Sitting around a campfire at night with some of the kids of his first converts – the second generation of believers – like a grandpa gathered with the grandkids at a family function. “Tell us...
