by St. Ann Staff | Jan 5, 2014 | Sunday Homilies
Our young folks probably notice that us old people like to talk about how things were when we were young. Certainly, how we listen to music is different than it used to be. << music starts >> Before MP3 players; before CDs, and even before cassette tapes...
by St. Ann Staff | Jan 1, 2014 | Sunday Homilies
For some unknown reason, God didn’t put eyes in the back of our heads nor put our noggins on swivels. Maybe He just didn’t like the look. Or perhaps it was because He wants us to mostly look ahead, not back. But a timely look behind us is useful, and even necessary....
by St. Ann Staff | Dec 29, 2013 | Sunday Homilies
The humorist Irma Bombeck once said: Every child threatens to run away from home at some point or another. Then she adds: “Sometimes that is all the hope a parent needs to keep on going.” It takes a lot to survive parenting, doesn’t it? And to survive being parented,...
by St. Ann Staff | Dec 25, 2013 | Sunday Homilies
Many years ago I pondered the age old question about Christmas: Did God the father pass out cigars on Christmas morning, slapping the angels heartily on the back, beaming proudly – “It’s a boy.”? And then, the inevitable second question: Do...
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...
