by St. Ann Staff | Apr 20, 2014 | Sunday Homilies
As you know, smart phones can do many things. One of them is to take your spoken words and type them for you, so you can send them as an email or a text. “Hey Mom, I just want you to know I love you.” It is a handy function to have, great for sending texts and emails...
by St. Ann Staff | Apr 17, 2014 | Sunday Homilies
When you are plunged into icy waters, the lessons are clear, straight-forward and brutal. When a Korean ferry boat tragically capsized sharply this week, the top deck of the ship was no longer up. Like a scene from the Poseidon Adventure, I can only imagine the chaos...
by St. Ann Staff | Apr 13, 2014 | Sunday Homilies
Before the Passion Narrative: There is much that is darkness in this world… Jesus came into our darkness as light. Into the darkness of our violent world, he came that we might know peace. (1st candle lit here) Into the darkness of our sinfulness, he came that we...
by St. Ann Staff | Apr 6, 2014 | Sunday Homilies
I received one of ‘those emails’ from a friend saying that he was in trouble. He said he had forgotten to tell me of his trip to Kiev where, according to the email, he had been held up at gunpoint, taking his money and credit cards and plane tickets, but not his...
by St. Ann Staff | Mar 30, 2014 | Sunday Homilies
The iconic images of the three monkeys – See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil – certainly contain some decent advice for our living. In the best interpretation of those axioms, they are a choice not to consciously be involved in things that are less than our...
