December 11

When I retired from active ministry, I moved back home to Indiana. In the Midwest, one of the striking things is the abundance of land and nature; the farmland and fields are all around.[read more]

December 10

A dear friend of mine, Gordon Zahn, was a conscientious objector in World War II and later a professor of sociology at both Loyola-Chicago, and UMass, Boston.[read more]

December 9

While packing to move last year, I came across a yellowed Boston Globe clipping from April 1994 with an ad from Xaverian Brothers High School seeking a theology teacher.[read more]

December 6

Comfort ye my people….” these words are the text used by Handel for the first aria in his oratorio “Messiah”, music that we shall perhaps hear often in the coming Advent days.[read more]

December 5

Our Advent journey holds the anticipation of God’s promise to send His son to redeem us. In Luke’s Gospel we see the anticipation of four men who are willing to go to great extremes to have their friend healed.[read more]

December 4

When I was in grade school, I was taught by the Sisters of St. Joseph. Some were young. One who most definitely was not, was Sister Marcellinus.[read more]

December 2

In many ways, today’s Gospel is straightforward. Two blind men follow Jesus, asking for His healing. Jesus, perhaps mindful of the scene that such an event would cause, does not respond to them until He has left the road and entered a house.[read more]