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…
WHY DO BAD THINGS HAPPEN TO GOOD PEOPLE…
This week - the first reading for Mass has come from the Hebrew Scriptures book of Job. This book has been of particular fascination to me since college. One of my theology professor's, Fr. Thomas…
REFORM
Feast of St. Francis of Assisi - October 4 “There needs to be reform in the Church.” That’s been something that many people have been saying, especially the last few months. But for those of…
SIZING UP NECKS FOR MILLSTONES
Hi everyone, this is my homily for SEPTEMBER 30, 2018 - the 26th SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME. The readings for today's Mass can be found at http://usccb.org/bible/readings/093018.cfm Thanks as always for reading; sharing this blog…
PURSUING GREATNESS
Hi everyone, this is my homily for SEPTEMBER 23, 2018 - the 25th SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME. The readings for today's Mass can be found at http://usccb.org/bible/readings/092318.cfm Thanks as always for reading; sharing this blog…
GARGOYLES
A memory of one of my beloved former students was when we had visited the heart of the Archdiocese of Newark - the Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart about 11 years ago. He was,…
BEFORE AND AFTER
Hi everyone, this is my homily for SEPTEMBER 16, 2018 - the 24th SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME given at Montclair State University. The readings for today's Mass can be found at http://usccb.org/bible/readings/091618.cfm Thanks as always…
LIFT HIGH THE CROSS
Today we celebrate the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, a special feast on the Roman Catholic calendar. In the Archdiocese of Newark, this has been designated a special day of Prayer, Fasting and Abstinence in…
9/11 – seventeen years later
17 years. The date always seems to stand off the calendar, kind of frozen in time - 9/11 - that it’s easy to forget exactly how much time has passed. 9/11 is one of those…