January 1, 2022 Growing up in the early 1940s, we were taught more about Mary and devotions to her than we were taught about Jesus – in my catechism classes at least. Over the centuries, our Catholic Church created a goddess-like cult for Mary. She was much more approachable than Jesus, it seemed, and equallyContinue reading “Solemnity of Mary, the Holy Mother of God“
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Holy Family Sunday: A reflection on being holy and human
December 26, 2021 We have a tradition of “piousitizing” (trying to make him look pious) the life of Jesus who is supposed to be the ideal, good child. But is he being a brat who defies his parents who requested that he take his place in the children’s part of the Caravan as they walkContinue reading “Holy Family Sunday: A reflection on being holy and human“
Christmas Day: “Christmas is about loving people”
December 25, 2021 Perhaps, you would think that it should be very easy to give a homily on Christmas Day, but it isn’t for a priest. Why? Because there is so much to talk about or because everything is like a distraction and blur. Like we worry over saying something that is meaningful and thatContinue reading “Christmas Day: “Christmas is about loving people”“
II Sunday Advent: Is everything falling apart, or is God creating something new with our help and his inspiration?
December 5, 2021 What is the liturgical year that Fr. Robert keeps talking about – its ending or its beginning? It is a way for us to help focus our spiritual attention, to focus the time that we give to God, a way to deepen our sense of how God is present to us inContinue reading “II Sunday Advent: Is everything falling apart, or is God creating something new with our help and his inspiration?“
Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ King of the Universe: A Light in Our Minds and Hearts to Show a Way to Integrity
November 21, 2021 We don’t use, today, the language of politics to describe Jesus. The feudal systems of monarchs and kings went out of fashion in the 18th Century with the French revolution. Yet it took much longer for European monarchies to vanish. There are still a few nominal monarchies — England, Belgium, Spain. InContinue reading “Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ King of the Universe: A Light in Our Minds and Hearts to Show a Way to Integrity”
33rd Sunday: Finding calm in today’s world
November 14, 2021 Do you remember the 1922 story of Henny Penny, called Chicken Little, who believes the world is coming to end? “The sky is falling!” The phrase features prominently in the story. Actually, the sky is not falling but Chicken Little gets so worked up and believes that it is. So the storyContinue reading “33rd Sunday: Finding calm in today’s world“
32nd Sunday 2021: Seeing as God sees, reaching out as God reaches out, the jar of our awareness and sacrificial love will not run out
November 7, 2021 For very uneducated people over the centuries, the Catholic Church has tried to make it easy for people by creating prayers to pray, rules to obey to keep us all on the right path to God, Jesus, to Mary, and all the saints. The effort to simplify and to be helpful doesContinue reading “32nd Sunday 2021: Seeing as God sees, reaching out as God reaches out, the jar of our awareness and sacrificial love will not run out”
All Souls’ Day/Dia de los Muertos: Those whom you gave me are your gift to me
November 2, 2021 I would propose to you this evening a different way to appreciate our day of the Dead. For too long, the Catholic Church has focused on our human sins which, the people of the Middle Ages believed would prevent us from entering the presence of God without some experience to purify ourselvesContinue reading “All Souls’ Day/Dia de los Muertos: Those whom you gave me are your gift to me“
31st Sunday in Ordinary Time: What Brings Meaning, Joy and Hope to Our Lives?
eaOctober 31, 2021 Same ole, same ole, love God, love your neighbor! Each one of us has “sort of” figured it out for ourselves. Most of us have put some kind of personal limits as to what it means or how far we are willing to go. So, who is God? Is it as simpleContinue reading “31st Sunday in Ordinary Time: What Brings Meaning, Joy and Hope to Our Lives?“
27th Sunday in Ordinary Time: Thoughts on Marriage
October 3, 2021 “Of all the important places in life to find God and to walk with God, certainly, marriage life would be the place.” So let us talk about marriage and divorce, in a very frank and honest way. That is what Jesus begins to do today. We know that all first marriages doContinue reading “27th Sunday in Ordinary Time: Thoughts on Marriage“
Harvest and Hope 