by St. Ann Staff | Dec 20, 2015 | Sunday Homilies
One of the eye opening moments of my pilgrimage to the Holy Land was learning the very concrete topography of several of the sights. Few so opened a new understanding in me as the site of the Visitation. So, when the gospel says that Mary set out in haste to the HILL...
by St. Ann Staff | Dec 13, 2015 | Sunday Homilies
In the summer when it became known that I would become pastor here at St. Ann while remaining director of the Newman Center, almost every person I received the same message over and over. “Father, you are going to be really busy!” Or: “How are you going to do all that...
by St. Ann Staff | Dec 6, 2015 | Sunday Homilies
“Once upon a time, long ago, there was this strange man who lived in the desert. He wouldn’t eat ordinary food, nor wear ordinary clothes. Instead, he ate locust (and they weren’t even chocolate covered) and wild honey, and he wore the scratchiest, itchiest tunic you...
by St. Ann Staff | Nov 29, 2015 | Sunday Homilies
Do you remember ever standing on a curb feeling the strong hand of your mother or father holding your small uplifted hand just before you crossed the street? “Before we cross the street,” mom/dad would say, “we must stop, look, and listen for cars that may be coming...
by St. Ann Staff | Nov 22, 2015 | Sunday Homilies
St. Ann rectory has the most doors of any rectory I have ever lived in. If I start in my bathroom, I have to go through 8 sets of doors to get into the church. Likewise, if I start in the kitchen, and go up the back stairwell, it is 7 sets of doors. If go up through...
by St. Ann Staff | Nov 15, 2015 | Sunday Homilies
A few weeks ago, I got a tip that the end of the world was nigh. Usually I don’t pay much attention to them. But these were different. These warnings were a series of post it notes put on different doors of the parish complex over 4 different days. Someone went to...
