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 2, 2011 | Sunday Homilies
What’s wrong with our St. Ann crib scene? There is a bit of a problem with the St. Ann nativity scene, apparently for at least as long as I have been pastor. One of the three kings is missing. The figurine that I had been so diligently moving window by window as one...
by Fr. Bill | Dec 25, 2010 | Sunday Homilies
Are you a good receiver? (and I’m not talking Mizzou football here) [Ask for a kid volunteer. Have them unwrap gift … send child back to pew] I’ll bet if I just asked you to describe what you just saw… you would be likely to say you saw me give a gift to...
by Fr. Bill | Dec 5, 2010 | Sunday Homilies
In 2001, Rick Page, published a book entitled: Hope is Not a Strategy: The Six Keys to Winning the Complex Sale. Though I don’t know how successful the book was, the phrase itself has worked its way into our American politics during these difficult economic days. ...
by Fr. Bill | Nov 28, 2010 | Sunday Homilies
There has been much furor over the Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) recent requirements for even more stringent security measures. Full body imaging makes some people uncomfortable, if not for themselves, then certainly for their small children. A more...
