by St. Ann Staff | Jun 24, 2012 | Sunday Homilies
I’m not sure if that is a single character in all of the Scriptures who invokes the image of a prophet more clearly in our minds than John the Baptist. We picture him, I think, as an amalgam of all of the gospel accounts: dressed in camel’s hair, living in a desert,...
by St. Ann Staff | Jun 17, 2012 | Sunday Homilies
Plant a radish. Get a radish. Never any doubt. That’s why I love vegetables; You know what you’re about! Plant a turnip. Get a turnip. Maybe you’ll get two. That’s why I love vegetables; You know that they’ll come through! While...
by St. Ann Staff | Jun 10, 2012 | Sunday Homilies
The playing of taps as a military honor guard salutes a flag draped casket holding the remains of a soldier killed in Afghanistan. A funeral procession passing the firehouse with the huge flag draped between two ladder trucks, carrying the coffin of a firefighter who...
by St. Ann Staff | Jun 3, 2012 | Sunday Homilies
America magazine had an article about the cosmos and recent developments in Cosmology – the study of the universe and world around us. The medium for the study of the universe is the light energy we are able to ‘see’ via the Hubble telescope and X-ray and Radio...
by St. Ann Staff | May 27, 2012 | Sunday Homilies
As you know, my family moved my mom into one of these senior apartment complexes the Thursday before mother’s day. That was the easy part. The hard part is going through nearly 60 years of collected ‘stuff’ – to try and figure out what to do with it. I have found a...
by Fr. Bill | Jun 19, 2011 | Sunday Homilies
An elderly, bearded gentleman, with a benevolent, yet powerful face and flowing beard. A Jewish looking man hanging on the cross, with body bruised, but spirit somehow intact and triumphant. A nebulous spirit kind of dove image. I suspect that for many of us, those...
