by St. Ann Staff | Jun 22, 2014 | Sunday Homilies
Unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a grain of wheat, but if it dies, it bears much fruit… You probably have heard these words a hundred times, a thousand times in the course of your life time. I came across this poem in the...
by St. Ann Staff | Jun 15, 2014 | Sunday Homilies
It is “wedding season” for us priestly types, and perhaps, for many of you, as sons, daughters, neighbors and friend’s children are making the trip to the altar. In my nearly 30 year of witnessing them, I have become convinced that weddings have an ability to give us...
by St. Ann Staff | Jun 8, 2014 | Sunday Homilies
The Lord be with you. (Assembly responds: “And with your spirit.”) Thanks. But what does that mean? We’re about 2 ½ years into this “new” Mass language, and I still not totally comfortable with that response. The Lord is with my spirit but not the rest of me? The...
by St. Ann Staff | Jun 1, 2014 | Sunday Homilies
“Men and women of St. Ann parish, why are you standing there looking into the sky?” Is that not a corrective we all need sometimes. Jesus ascended to the heaven, and we’ve been looking at the sky ever since. I understand that temptation. • Local politics...
by St. Ann Staff | May 25, 2014 | Sunday Homilies
“On the second day, a sail drew near, nearer, and picked me up at last. It was the devious-cruising Rachel, that in her retracing search after her missing children, only found another orphan.” So ends arguably the greatest of all American novels: Moby-Dick. Perhaps if...
by St. Ann Staff | May 18, 2014 | Sunday Homilies
“In my Father’s house there are many dwelling places. If there were not, would I have told you that I am going to prepare a place for you?” When choosing scripture passages for the funeral of a loved one, a number of people choose today’s Gospel because of that...
