"But I don't want to!" My 7 year old simply didn't want to go to school that day. She didn't want to, and that fact alone should have released her from her obligation to attend first grade class that day. "I don't want to!" Imagine her surprise when her father, the mean ogre forcing her…
I can't help but hear whistling when I think of the title of today's reflection. All you Monty Python fans understand!
We live in an age of affluent problems. Recently, a teenager from a very wealthy home was involved in a fatal car accident, and the accident was this young man's fault. Another teenager had been…
Funny, I didn't know I owed Attention any money!
Interesting phrase "pay attention." It seems to suggest that attention must always be something I have to place value upon if I am going to be aware of important things. The truth is I usually only "pay attention" to things I already think "deserve attention." But what…
You've heard me say this before if you've been reading a while: Being shrewd isn't necessarily the same as being wise. And the reason is an evil man can be shrewd and calculating, but only a good man can be truly wise.
Now that doesn't mean that shrewdness is always evil. Far from it. Our Lord…
Today is the Sunday After the Feast of Epiphany (Theophany) and we read in our Gospel Lesson that St. John the Baptist has been arrested. Our Lord's response to that new was to tell the people to repent.
What does metantia (the Koiene Greek word that English translates as "repent") have to do with facing reversals…
It seems the book by Simon Sinek "Start With Why - How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone" has struck a chord with many. And the question is "why does asking why help so very much?"
The answer is found in knowing the fundamental nature and purpose of any activity. You can use a hammer to do many…
The Centers for Disease Control came out with their 2012 report on Births in the US and they discovered that out of the almost 4 million births in America, over 1,600,000 babies were born this past year to unwed women. You can read the entire report at www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr62/nvsr62_09.pdf
While I truly appreciate the old saying that…
Here is this past Sunday's Homily. I pray it is a blessing to you.
When The Rubber Meets the Road
Einstein's theories of relativity and space time mark science's attempt to explore and understand the created order. And reading about these ideas gives me a headache! But I am fascinated by the complex beauty and wonder these ideas reveal. A recent long term experiment conducted to test the theory of curved space time and the…
Ralph Waldo Emerson once suggested that the greatest invention of humanity is friendship. But Emerson is mistaken. Friendship isn't man's invention. It is God's.
No matter how hard we try to hide it, our hunger for intimacy, relationships, and communion always "spills" out of our hearts. That's why we hunger for friends and companions. That's why,…