January 9, 2022 (Version 1: This is Father Mangini’s first version that he delivered at mass) Today (yesterday) at St. Mary’s Church in Walnut Creek, I baptized Luca Slovik. Thirty years ago, I baptized his mother Veronica. I married his parents a few years ago. I even married his grandparents. When you are a priestContinue reading “The Baptism of the Lord: “The purpose of Baptism is to share with us who we are really and to encourage us”“
Category Archives: Tribalism
26th Ordinary Sunday: “There are no exclusive rights to Jesus”
September 26, 2021 The Roman Catholic Church does not have an exclusive contract with God, to talk about God or to let everyone know the secrets of God. At one time, we did teach that we were the one true Church, that we had figured everything out, through specific words describing dogmas, and rituals claimingContinue reading “26th Ordinary Sunday: “There are no exclusive rights to Jesus””
24th Sunday – 9/11 Anniversary
September 12, 2021 I turned the TV on for morning news as I began to shave, looking at one tower already imploded and the second plane crashing into the other. Where were you? We were stunned by the violence — that a group of human beings were so angry and so violent with us whoContinue reading “24th Sunday – 9/11 Anniversary“
29th Sunday: To Be Human…
August 29, 2021 How did Jesus become a human being and why? Our Catholic tradition uses the word “The Incarnation” to describe how God becomes or enters into our human reality. In the First Incarnation, God’s person and presence fills and creates all inanimate materials, planets and stars and universes. In the Second Incarnation, GodContinue reading “29th Sunday: To Be Human…“
Harvest and Hope 