by St. Ann Staff | Dec 22, 2013 | Sunday Homilies
Joseph was good at fixing things. After all, he was a carpenter, and carpenters had to know how to fix stuff. Give him a door with a broken hinge; a table with a broken leg; a bed with a broken slat, he would fix it and fix it well. If it could be made or fixed with a...
by St. Ann Staff | Dec 15, 2013 | Sunday Homilies
I was nine days ordained. And already I knew I needed a new map for my priesthood. (“That didn’t take long!” a voice in my head said with a kind of sigh.) It was Christmas eve, after the 5 pm mass at St. Joseph’s parish in Manchester. And I was angry. The cause of my...
by St. Ann Staff | Dec 8, 2013 | Sunday Homilies
Every year, around this time, the Oxford English Dictionary people list the ‘new words’ that have come into existence in the English language. And each year, they pick one word that summarizes the changes in the culture that produced the new words. Recent winners...
by St. Ann Staff | Dec 1, 2013 | Sunday Homilies
Among the top ten most dangerous things to do while driving a car are the following: Eating, grabbing something out of reach, putting on makeup, changing clothes, texting, reading, writing, setting your gps, searching for a favorite song on your i-pad, and talking on...
by St. Ann Staff | Nov 24, 2013 | Sunday Homilies
It is an answer that most of the baby boomers will know by heart. In gym class, at work, in school – the answers are as varied as the ones giving them. As we observed the 50th anniversary of that Nov. 22 day, there is still a clarity to people’s memories – so much so...
by St. Ann Staff | Nov 17, 2013 | Sunday Homilies
It started with a slight slurring of speech, barely noticeable, and mostly in the evenings. Then there were the occasional bouts of muscle weakness – but again nothing alarming. The slurring got worse when he was tired. A visit to the doc seemed absurdly...
