“AND JESUS WEPT.”

So a random fact-toid for you the next time you’re on Jeopardy or playing Trivia Pursuit. While the Gospel we just heard is somewhat lengthy one, within that reading was one of the shortest scripture…

OBNOXIOUS

When reading and praying with scriptures, it’s interesting to me to see where my mind goes - or how the Holy Spirit catches my attention. Sometimes I can put myself into a dramatic scene and…

WE NEED GOD TO SAVE US

These last couple of weeks with this coronavirus pandemic has brought no shortage of extremes from great generosity, service and sacrifice to epic examples of stupidity, selfishness and just utter evil. Which validates a theory…

9 MONTHS TILL CHRISTMAS!

Last weekend, a friend of mine posted on Facebook that because of the widespread orders across the country of people being confined to their homes that Hallmark Channel went wall to wall Christmas movies for…

A FLICKER OF HOPE

Why did he hesitate?   That was a thought that came to my mind when praying with this Gospel passage [you can read the Gospel here]. This guy who is described as having been ill for…

DETAILS MATTER

This past January, a Japanese billionaire promised to give away $9 million to 1000 twitter followers (which for those of you trying to calculate that in your minds works out to $9,000 each) which they…

CALLING ON JESUS

I’ve tried... seriously - to allow myself no more than 15-20 minutes of News coverage a day. For the most part all week I was good. Got the latest updates and then turned it off.…

FIRST AND FOREMOST

Last night after we finished Mass and holy hour here, I had to drive down to the local CVS and I was telling our missionaries how unnerving it was to drive down the street and…