by St. Ann Staff | Mar 23, 2014 | Sunday Homilies
Dr. Tom Wagner, a friend of mine, and also a counselor, gave a presentation on resilience and how you keep on going when times are difficult. In the course of that talk, he used an image that aptly describes anyone who has ever wrestled with their own desire to be...
by St. Ann Staff | Mar 16, 2014 | Sunday Homilies
Abram went as the Lord directed him. Sounds so simple, doesn’t it. Leave the land of your kinfolk and your Father’s house – leave all that you call ‘home.’ Many of us have done that – because of marriage, because we left home for college, because of a new job...
by St. Ann Staff | Mar 16, 2014 | Sunday Bulletin
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by St. Ann Staff | Mar 16, 2014 | Pastor's Pen
A different kind of fasting… A friend of mine forwarded me the following excerpt from a blog called Abby of the Arts by Christine Valters. It is worth the reading. “I am called to fast from being strong and always trying to hold it all together, and instead...
by St. Ann Staff | Mar 9, 2014 | Pastor's Pen
It is hard to reconcile the images of the beginning of Lent and snow on the ground. Having traveled twice now to the Holy Land, and seen with my own eyes both the lush greens surrounding the sea of Galilee and the harsh, hot desert around Jericho – the site of Jesus’...
by St. Ann Staff | Mar 9, 2014 | Sunday Homilies
A married couple from Christian Family Camp shared a story of a time when their daughter was struggling with Anorexia Nervosa. I knew about the disease, but I did not know how tough it is. Statistics say that between 5-20% of individuals struggling with anorexia...
by St. Ann Staff | Mar 9, 2014 | Sunday Bulletin
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by St. Ann Staff | Mar 5, 2014 | Sunday Homilies
There were usually two situations in my life where I heard the words: “That’s enough.” The first was when I was fighting with my older or younger brother. “That’s enough” was the command by mom or dad to cease and desist. The immediate retort when I was the victim...
by St. Ann Staff | Mar 2, 2014 | Sunday Homilies
The students from Western Michigan University who are staying here for their service trip told me an interesting fact. They have had over 100 inches of snow on Campus this year. That kind of puts our impending snow storm into perspective. But that factoid also got...
by St. Ann Staff | Mar 2, 2014 | Pastor's Pen
House Guests… Once again, 9 students and 2 chaperones from Western Michigan University at Kalamazoo have arrived at St. Ann rectory, to take up residence for a week of service. They will be working with Beyond Housing, from about 9 am to ~3:30 pm daily. Then they will...
