If you spend enough time around college students, you end up learning things you never saw coming. I’m 52 years old and after nearly 27 years as a priest, I somehow now know that if…
JESUS WEEPS
One of the difficult things that priests encounter is when someone expresses that they’ve chosen to stay far off from the Lord believing the lie that Satan has whispered to them. They’ll say things like…
WHAT CAUSES YOU TO LOSE YOUR FAITH?
What will cause you to lose your faith? What a question, huh? As we hear Jesus go through a litany of pretty frightening realities in this Gospel passage, that could be the question he…
WHAT’S HEAVEN LIKE
Probably some of the funniest moments that priests have is in our dealings with little kids. When I was first ordained and in a parish, this little guy loved to make pictures, and was a…
HOPE YOU NEVER NEED THIS, BUT…
When you got (or get) your first car - especially you guys under 25 years old - one of the worst expenses you encounter is the auto insurance. I remember a student a few years…
CURING HOPELESSNESS EPIDEMIC
How many big cities are identified by a visual, historic landmark? When people hear New York City, the Statue of Liberty or the Empire State Building seems to instantly come to mind; Paris – the…
GOD’S HALL OF FAME – All Saints Day
Hollywood has the Oscars; TV has the Emmy’s; Different sports retire players uniform numbers or enter them into a Hall of Fame. It is an incredibly human thing for us to appreciate “greatness” in peers.…
AS IF… TOTALLY NOT A CLUELESS HOMILY
My senior year in college one of my older brothers, Craig, who got a Bachelors in Arts Degree from Boston College said he wanted to see a film based on the Jane Austen book “Emma.”…
(Saint) JPII – WE STILL LOVE YOU
Over a month and a half ago, when we commemorated the September 11th attacks, it struck me that in the 12 years I’ve been here as the Chaplain and Director of the St. John Henry…