by St. Ann Staff | Oct 6, 2013 | Sunday Homilies
“It isn’t much,” the young man thought, as he picked up the bulky, old, never quite in tune 12 string guitar, the echoes of the piano concert from the basement still ringing in his and the rest of the student’s ears. “How can these 12 strings and a five-chord song...
by St. Ann Staff | Sep 29, 2013 | Sunday Homilies
This homily was delivered at the UMSL community at 8:30pm on 9/29/13. – Fr. Bill Our family was unable to afford comic books growing up, so I was introduced to them only in college, where two classmates had extensive collections. Superman, the Fantastic Four,...
by St. Ann Staff | Sep 29, 2013 | Sunday Homilies
In my 28 ½ years of being a priest, this weekend is the first time an Archbishop has told me what topic to address in my preaching on a given Sunday. So I figured I better pay attention. He did not tell me how to address it. I do not approach the issue as a politician...
by St. Ann Staff | Sep 8, 2013 | Sunday Homilies
What king marching into battle would not first sit down and decide whether with ten thousand troops he can successfully oppose another king advancing upon him with twenty thousand troops? It is disconcerting, isn’t it, to hear those words of today’s gospel against the...
by St. Ann Staff | Sep 1, 2013 | Sunday Homilies
Do you conduct your affairs with humility? I came across a poem in my reading this week. It says quite simply: Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth: You owe me. Look what happens with a love like that. It lights the whole sky. (2X) Like Jesus’...
