6th Sunday of Easter, Year BActs 10:25-26, 34-35, 44-48Psalm 98:1, 2-3, 3-4 (2b)1 John 4:7-10John 15:9-17May 9, 2021 Peter is led by God to the house of Cornelius. There Cornelius falls “at his feet” to pay homage to Peter. Peter does not accept the homage for he knows he is “also a human being.” Peter …
I wrote the following for our parish bulletin for Mother’s Day. Mothers are important. Eve was the first mother in the Bible. “She was the mother of all the living” (Genesis 3:20). There is Sarah, Abraham’s wife, and the mother of Isaac. We remember Moses’ mother who protected his life when all the young Hebrew …
After learning I would be moving to another parish at the end of June, in mid-April I wrote an article, “The Next Change.” In that article, I talked about the inevitability of change, that we are not alone in needing to deal with change, and the different perspectives from which we see change. It is …
In March I wrote an article called “Chastity and Sexuality”. As part of that article, I discussed how sexual acts are meant to be an expression of the love between a man and a woman in marriage. Sex without love is a mere physical act without meaning. In love, sexuality expresses its true meaning. Today …
5th Sunday of Easter, Year BActs 9:26-31Psalm 22:26-27, 29, 30, 31-32 (26a)1 John 3:18-24John 15:1-8May 2, 2021 The story told in the Acts of the Apostles is the story of the early church. Acts tells us how “the church throughout all Judea, Galilee, and Samaria was at peace. It was being built up and walked …
