Christ is Born!
"Where did she go?" As a father, that question sent chills up my spine! Our youngest had wandered off and I couldn't see her. It was a crowded area and all my police training had me imagining the worst. Not knowing where she was was a terror I don't think I had ever…
Fr. Barnabas Powell
In 1977, as a young 17 year old, I sat in the dark theater waiting for this new science fiction movie to start. As the crawl started I read "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far, away..." Then, the Imperial Battle cruiser began to make it's way across the screen and I was…
"She looks just like you." I confess, I love hearing this from folks when they see a picture of my little girls. Of course, when they see a picture of my wife, they say that the girls look like her! So, which is it? Well, it's both. After all, the girls are our children so…
Platitudes can be absolutely infuriating when you're suffering. And, usually, a person in pain hears things like "Oh, just trust God" or "into each life a little rain must fall" as uncaring dismissals of their very real heartache.
To be sure, most folks mean well, but deep in their own hearts they are afraid of getting…
The news struck me as wonderful, but my friend looked at m with surprise when I reacted with a smile and "congratulations" at him telling me that the company he worked for was letting him go. He seemed to be genuinely amazed that I was actually happy for him.
You see, the company he worked for…
"Home is where the heart is." "There's no place like home." "I'll be home for Christmas." OK, this could go on all day.
It seems we humans have an attachment to "home." Even the word itself conjures up images, feelings, and nostalgia.
But what is "home?" Why all this human focus on such a notion? I'm convinced…
As a former police officer, I remember well having to memorize the rules of the road so that I could ENFORCE the rules. Of course all these laws were on the books for people's safety, but I can't tell you how tempting it was to reduce that central purpose to the mere enforcing the rules…
Sometimes you have to wonder why we so easily miss it. You know, the obvious stuff that, once we see it, we wonder how we missed it in the first place! That's why I love puzzles like "where's Waldo" because once you see him, you can't "unsee" him. My girls like those puzzles where you…
Yeah, THAT old saying! A quote from Virgil's Aeneid says "the descent to hell is easy." And no one ever expects their good intentions to turn out bad. That's the "law of unintended consequences." It seems we humans are better at coming up with witty quotes than we are at avoiding the mistakes of our…
Thank you! We are 1/3 of the way to our End of the Year Goal of $10,000 to launch us into 2018 strong and ready to
Develop a New Video Series
Do some much needed improvement on our web presence
Do some much needed Graphic Design work to support local parishes in using…