Ok, before you say anything, I know I didn't post yesterday but I was just exhausted, I pretty much spend 10 hours a day staring at a computer screen, and frankly, when I get home I don't always feel like looking at another one, In addition, I had to do some work of the parish …
Category: Reflections
Forty Days, Forty Posts
Here we are in another Lenten season. For the last two years, I have not written much of anything, I have stopped attending Mass and I have almost (not quite) gone back to my pre-reversion ways. With everything that is going on in the world I have come to the realization that I better get …
I’m not ready yet
I know we don't know the day or the hour but I can't help thinking the end of the world isn't to far away. All one needs to do is look around to see the signs that are talked about throughout scripture. And I am scared. “But take heed to yourselves lest your hearts be …
Listen to the Small Voice
As if God hasn’t given us enough to deal with by letting this corona virus pandemic continue, now He has to throw in this whole racial unrest thing in the middle of it. Riots, looting, arson, attacks against police officers are becoming all to commonplace. And yes, I have to wonder if this is just …
Birds of a Feather
As I write this it is 4:00 AM. The morning birds are just beginning to wake up, starting their chorus. First, there is one, then another, a third, then too many to count. Photo by Barth Bailey on Unsplash I like to think each bird has its own particular job to do. The one directly …
Walking with God
This spring I have begun taking long walks in the woods. Taking long walks in the woods is much better than taking long walks off of short piers. These walks have further confirmed what I already knew... God is real. Atheists would like us to believe that everything was created by random interactions between molecules …
My Peace I Give to You
We hear this said at every Sunday Mass, unless. of course, we don't go to Sunday Mass. Have you ever wondered what this actually means, what we are being asked to do? Photo by Sunyu on Unsplash This is actually a line from the Gospel of John, John 14:27. Peace I leave with you; my peace I give …
Out into the Deep Water
This Sunday's Gospel reading is Luke 5: 1 - 11. This is when Jesus first asks several of the apostles to follow him and He will "make them fishers of men". Isn't this what Jesus calls us all to do? Photo by Manuel Sardo on Unsplash But Jesus is asking us to do more than just catch others …
Redemption is at Hand
Happy New Year! Well Happy New Liturgical Year anyway. Today we begin the new liturgical year in the Catholic Church. In addition to being a new year it is also the season of Advent. So... Happy Advent! Photo by Grant Whitty on Unsplash When we read today's Gospel Reading, Luke 21: 25 -28, 34 - 36, we may …
Seeing the Forest Through the Tree
Since I have been working with the RCIA candidates, I have been looking at the Gospel readings differently. One of the objectives of the RCIA program is to relate the Catechism and Scripture and the principles learned from them to daily life. So every day when I read the daily readings I try to do …
The Wayward Catholic 