by Fr. Bill | Oct 24, 2010 | Sunday Homilies
I remember as a kid having a kind of hate/love relationship with the IOWA Basics. Those were the standardized testing of my day. (Replaced now by ITBS testing) I hated taking the tests themselves. I loved getting done in some of the sections way before my classmates...
by Fr. Bill | Oct 17, 2010 | Sunday Homilies
(Sing) Lean on me, when you’re not strong, and I’ll be your friend, I’ll help you carry on. For it won’t be long, ‘til I’m gonna need somebody to lean on… That song, by Bill Withers, captures something that is important, I think, in our spiritual journey. There are...
by Fr. Bill | Oct 10, 2010 | Sunday Homilies
As a kid, I loved the connect-the-dots ‘games’ I’d find in the Highlight magazines in the dentist office and the occasional homework assignment. However, I, who draw stick fish, never realized that you didn’t have to draw exact straight lines between the numbers. In...
by Fr. Bill | Oct 3, 2010 | Sunday Homilies
In 2007 Hollywood produced a movie called The Bucket List. 2 strangers meet in cancer ward. They find they have less than 3 months to live, so, they make up a list of all the things they want to do before they kick the bucket. “Kiss the most beautiful girl in the...
by Fr. Bill | Sep 26, 2010 | Sunday Homilies
Art Trapp. Gary Braun. Nick Schneider. They are three of my heroes in the priesthood. Each, in their own way, has played a role in my journey to the priesthood and my living within that priesthood. Art was the rector of the seminary and a model of humility. ...
by Fr. Bill | Sep 19, 2010 | Sunday Homilies
Our family was unable to afford comic books growing up, so I was introduced to them only in college, where two classmates had extensive collections. Superman, the Fantastic Four, the X-men – really, all the comic book characters with the exception of Captain...
