by St. Ann Staff | Jul 6, 2014 | Sunday Homilies
“Beware the barrenness of a busy life.” I suspect that many people know this experience: the busy parents chauffeuring kids to various sporting practices and games to the corporate executive traveling with the demands of their career, to the elderly grandparent giving...
by St. Ann Staff | Jun 29, 2014 | Sunday Homilies
There are times when I feel out of my league. When the technology committee convenes, I can follow the big picture ideas and streams of thought. But when they start talking jargon and the nitty gritty, I KNOW that I am not smart enough in this area to add anything,...
by St. Ann Staff | Jun 22, 2014 | Sunday Homilies
Unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a grain of wheat, but if it dies, it bears much fruit… You probably have heard these words a hundred times, a thousand times in the course of your life time. I came across this poem in the...
by St. Ann Staff | Jun 15, 2014 | Sunday Homilies
It is “wedding season” for us priestly types, and perhaps, for many of you, as sons, daughters, neighbors and friend’s children are making the trip to the altar. In my nearly 30 year of witnessing them, I have become convinced that weddings have an ability to give us...
by St. Ann Staff | Jun 8, 2014 | Sunday Homilies
The Lord be with you. (Assembly responds: “And with your spirit.”) Thanks. But what does that mean? We’re about 2 ½ years into this “new” Mass language, and I still not totally comfortable with that response. The Lord is with my spirit but not the rest of me? The...
