May 1, 2012 By Michael Daley On a daily basis I encounter them — disturbing, startling, discomforting, angering, humorous, ironic, sarcastic, irreverent, damning, uplifting, and insightful words and images. Though you may be led to think that I’m referring to the newspaper, television, books, or a billboard as the source, …

May 1, 2012 By Jeanne Hunt The Gospel for the Feast of the Ascension is for go-getters — not for lazy believers with lead-feet disease. In this Gospel reading the angels offer us the timeless question, “Why do you stand here looking into the sky?” In other words, they prod …

May 1, 2012 By Father Kyle Schnippel There are so many wonderful things that we celebrate during the Easter season, it is so difficult to pick out different memories or thoughts and keep them from blending into one seamless fabric of thoughts.

May 1, 2012 By Sean Reynolds “The State of our Unions” is the title of a December 2011 research report from the National Marriage Project of the Institute for American Values and the University of Virginia. The researchers set out to answer these three questions: “Is it emotionally easier to …

April 30, 2012 By Stephen Trosley They were publically humiliated, stripped of their property, imprisoned, tortured and dragged into the arena to be savaged by wild animals. Some were crucified and others were tested by fire. Those who survived were treated as outcasts.

April 27, 2012 By Sister Betty Jane Lillie, SC   Fifth Sunday of Easter: Acts 9:26-31; Psalm 22: 26-27, 28, 30, 31-32; 1 John 3:18-24; John 15:1-8 The readings for this week focus on the early church and explicate the themes that drew the community’s life together in the resurrected …

By Terrance Callan   Third Sunday of Easter: Acts 3:13-15, 17-19; 1 John 2:1-5; Luke 24: 35-46 Often we find ourselves completely unable to solve a problem or understand a situation. If we then arrive at a solution somehow, we may feel as if the sun has broken through the …

April 14, 2012 By Terrence Callan Second Sunday of Easter: Acts 4: 32-5; 1 John 5:1-6; John 20:19-31 There are times when our circumstances change so radically that we feel our life has come to an end and started over again. And there are times when we wish we could …

April 8, 2012 By Terrence Callan Easter Sunday: Acts 10:34, 37-43; Colossians 3:1-4 or 1 Corinthians 5:6-8; John 20:1-9   Today we celebrate Easter Sunday, the feast of the resurrection of Jesus.  

March 30, 2012 By Terrance Callan Passion Sunday: Isaiah 50:4-7; Philippians 2:6-11; Mark 14:1-15:47 As we begin Holy Week, we focus our attention more and more on the passion and death of Jesus.