NOTHING TO FEAR, BUT…

What are you afraid of?  Not too long ago, there was a story that was published entitled Cancer Doctors Avoid End-of Life Talk.  It reported that many oncologists often refuse to tell terminally ill patients…

STATUES & STORIES

In recent weeks, there’s been a lot of discussion about statues.  Around the nation, often times imprudently and without dialogue or discussion - different statues are being unilaterally discarded and destroyed, usually as the result…

LEARNING & LIVING ‘THE OUR FATHER’

Seeing the “Our Father” as the Gospel passage today there’s a bombardment of thoughts that came to mind.  It’s the most common, known prayer in all of Christianity.  There’s some incredible reflections that Saints have…

ASH WEDNESDAY REVISITED?

When I first looked at the readings today I thought it was a mistake.  I thought that the website I look at for the daily scripture must’ve gotten their “Wednesday’s” confused and that we were…

A JEZEBEL & LOVING YOUR ENEMIES

Sorry everyone, forgot to post yesterday (Monday, June 15th) homily online... Thanks for the messages and your interest... MONDAY: A Jezebel If you ever wondered where the negative connotation to the name “Jezebel” comes from, today’s…

WHAT YOU BELIEVE

A few years ago, one of the strangest, not to mention tragic, stories made international headlines for good reason.  A 49 year-old Russian woman died from a heart attack that was brought about by the…

RESUMPTION OF PUBLIC MASSES (Finally)

Over the last few days, Cardinal Tobin, the Archbishop of Newark announced the next “phases” of resumption of Public Masses with “Phase 2" beginning Mon June 15th and “Phase 3" the weekend of June 20/21. …