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...
by St. Ann Staff | Dec 2, 2012 | Sunday Homilies
In college, when it came to papers, I functioned best as a procrastinator. Assign me the paper at the beginning or middle of the semester, the result was the same. It would get done at midnight or later the night before it was due. Maybe I worked better under...
by St. Ann Staff | Nov 25, 2012 | Sunday Homilies
We Christians say that we expect Christ to come back. We pray in the Lord’s own words every Sunday: Thy Kingdom come. Yet, I suspect that most of us approach that with a fairly dashed set of expectations about a better world that never quite comes. (We have been...
by St. Ann Staff | Nov 19, 2012 | Sunday Homilies
(Pull out a 3×5 index card – and start ‘reading’ the answer.) “This TV game show is known by this signature theme song during the final round.” <<play audio>> If you answered:”What is Jeopardy?”, you would be...
by St. Ann Staff | Nov 11, 2012 | Sunday Homilies
Long before the Electric Slide, the Macarena and the Cha Cha slide, the original line dance at weddings was the Hokey Pokey. It goes like this: You put your right foot in, You put your right foot out. You put your right foot in and you shake it all about. You do...
