Homily - Tuesday of Holy Week - (John 13:21-33, 36-38) There’s an unforgettable scene in the movie “A Few Good Men.” Jack Nicholson, playing this brash colonel, shouts at Tom Cruise playing an attorney in…
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…
GOING OUT OF YOUR WAY
Hi everyone, this is my homily for SEPTEMBER 9, 2018 - the 23rd SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME. The readings for today's Mass can be found at http://usccb.org/bible/readings/090918.cfm Thanks as always for reading; sharing this blog…