by St. Ann Staff | Jun 19, 2016 | Sunday Homilies
I suspect most parents learned, with exasperation, all about growth spurts. And how hard it was to keep their children in clothes and shoes that fit. The solutions in the Kempf house, where mom and dad had 5 boys to tend to, were twofold. Hand me downs. I had more...
by St. Ann Staff | Jun 12, 2016 | Sunday Homilies
So, if you had to choose a word/phrase, what would it be? When I shared this gospel question with my brother Joe, (the nice priest in the Kempf family), he too quickly suggested the word “Interminable.” I decided at that point not to ask the rest of my siblings… (Full...
by St. Ann Staff | Jun 5, 2016 | Sunday Homilies
I grew up with several ‘family stories’ that defined my world view. On dad’s side of the family it was simply the witness of grandpa in his love for grandma. Grandma had a slow acting cancer, and was bedridden for the final 13 years of her life. And grandpa was always...
by St. Ann Staff | May 29, 2016 | Sunday Homilies
“They all ate, and were satisfied.” A group of human beings satisfied—now that is a rare and wondrous thing to behold, then as now. Satisfied does not mean stuffed. Nor does it mean hungry. Satisfied means my desires, expectations and needs are taken care of....
by St. Ann Staff | May 22, 2016 | Sunday Homilies
Fr. Richard Rohr, in his book Falling Upward, The Spirituality for the Second Half of Life, writes: “We all seen to suffer from a tragic case of mistaken identity. Life is a matter of becoming fully and consciously who we already are, but it is a self that we largely...
by St. Ann Staff | May 15, 2016 | Sunday Homilies
Fr. Anthony DeMello, S.J. wrote a series of reflections on various stories and poems from eastern mysticism. One of them went like this: I used to be stone deaf. I would see people stand up and go through all kinds of gyrations. They called it dancing. It looked...
