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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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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...

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...

Baptism of the Lord

By Anonymous - January 12, 2014

I think all of us, at one point or another have managed to do a project backwards. I think all of us, at one point or another have gotten one of those presents for Christmas, or have kids who have gotten a certain kind of present. These presents come with the three words that strike fear in the hearts and minds of parents everywhere. "Some assembly required" Invariably, we get all the pieces, and line them up on the floor, and start following the directions. Then, about half-way through, someone says oh yeah…that makes sense…and starts working away. A few minutes after that, someone else says….but wasn't this supposed to go on first? My favorite experience of that was one time at my parents house when we were fixing things up and I heard…umm, isn't the insulation supposed to go inside BEFORE we nail down the drywall… Then invariably you end up tearing the whole thing apart and putting it back together again. I think we've all ha...