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I can't always promise I'll have something fancy to say, but I've been asked often enough to post my homilies and other reflections, so I guess we'll see how it goes.

27th Sunday Year C - Unprofitable Servants

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By Anonymous - October 09, 2013

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26th Sunday year C- Lazarus

By Anonymous - October 09, 2013

There's an old story about a boy walking along the shore of a beach. On the beach, the tide was starting to go out. The beach was lined with starfish. As the boy walked along, he saw an old man. The old man was picking up a fish, one at a time, and setting it back in the water. So the boy ran up to the man and asked what he was doing. The man said. These starfish have washed ashore, if they don't get back in the water, they'll dry up and die. The boy said, there are thousands of starfish on the beach, you can't possible make a difference here. The old man calmly walked over to the next starfish, picked it up, set it in the water, and said…."it made a difference to that one" Isn't it amazing how we can choose to see things the way we want to see them. When something is presented in front of us, we can decide how we choose to see it. Sometimes we can get lost in how big the world is, how things seem to be crashing d...

4th of July - Bravery and Freedom

By Fr Matt - July 02, 2015

Two hundred and thirty nine years ago today, there were a group 56 of men who stood around a desk, about 200 miles east of here in Philadelphia. Together, they recognized the injustices that were being done to those around them. Those men could have set back and given in. Many of them were wealthy. Many were born into privilege, and if they has simply struck a deal, most of them could have led very comfortable lives. Yet, they believed in something that was much more important than comfort. They believed in principles of freedom, principles that they would use to build a nation. Those men really didn't amount to much. Compared to the British of the time, they were hardly a blip on the radar, a nasty pest. They had no real chance of defeating the British army. There was a real possibility that each of them would lose everything, end up in prison or worse. Yet, even so, they decided to sign the document that was sitting in front of them. They decided to sign that Declarat...

Epiphany

By Anonymous - January 10, 2014

When we really look at the Christmas season, it really is an incredible story. Angels appearing and guiding people, a miraculous virgin birth, incredible dreams that warned people of upcoming events, and then the three kings. There are some parts of the story that are simply so incredible, that they simply have to be true. If they weren't, no one would have ever believed the story in the first place. One of those, is the feast we celebrate today, the visit by the Magi. As the traditional story goes, the Magi saw a star rise in the east, that led them west to visit Jesus. So basically, three kings saw a strange star in the sky, and went on a journey together to find out what was at the other side. When we hear that version, it seems a little hokey at best, yet, if we look a little closer into the story, and if you'll forgive me for going into some of the technicalities, I'd like to share one explanation I found recently, because I really bel...