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Saint Bonaventure, Bishop and Doctor of the Church
Today's readings | Saint of the Day Saint Bonaventure was born in central Italy in 1221. As a boy, he was cured of a serious illness through the prayers of St. Francis. St. Francis was an inspiration to Bonaventure and because of that, Bonaventure entered the Franciscan order and later became a professor of theology…
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Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha, Virgin
Today’s Readings | Saint of the Day Kateri Tekakwitha was born in 1656 to a Christian Algonquin woman. Her parents died in a smallpox epidemic – which left Kateri herself disfigured and half blind – when she was four years old. She went to live with her uncle who succeeded her own father as chief…
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Let’s get some of this grammar stuff straight…
You should literally read this immediately. Go ahead, I’ll wait. This literally drove me nuts when I was working in the corporate world. I wish every mid-level manager would literally read this and then literally send me a quarter everytime they literally misuse the word. I’d literally be a millionairre literally next week… Sorry. That…
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Thursday of the 14th Week of Ordinary Time: Freely Give
Today's readings Without cost you have received; without cost you are to give. There may be no such thing as a free lunch, but there is free grace. And today Jesus reminds us that free grace is exactly what we have been given. It's good on occasion to stop and take an account of all…
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St. Benedict, Abbot
I would be remiss if I did not observe with great fondness this feast of St. Benedict, abbot, and father of western monasticism. My Benedictine roots stem from my college days at Benedictine University in Lisle, IL (then called Illinois Benedictine College), and I have a deep fondness for the monks of St. Procopius Abbey,…
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Monday of the 14th Week of Ordinary Time
Today's readings The Lord is gracious and merciful. Recently, I was reading a commentary on preaching that encouraged preachers to preach once in a while on other readings beside the Gospel. The Gospel's almost always the most obvious choice, and certainly contains the crux of the message in the Liturgy of the Word. But wonderful…
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14th Sunday of Ordinary Time: Our Eyes are Fixed Intently on the Lord
Today's readings The story goes that one day, St. Theresa of Avila was wheeling a cart across a bridge over the river. At one point along the bridge's passage, a wheel of the cart got stuck in the planks, and St. Theresa had to wrestle the cart to get going again. In the struggle, the…
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The Lego World Cup
Watch the World Cup. Lego Style. I have no idea who had the kind of time it would take to put this together, but I loved it!
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Friday of the 13th Week of Ordinary Time
Thinking we have it all together and every issue taken care of can be a very dangerous thing. In my days in music ministry, I had many rather humbling moments as a cantor. Whenever I thought I knew the psalm well enough, God would use that occasion to show me, in front of everyone, that…
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Thursday of the 13th Week of Ordinary Time
One of the things that used to irritate me about my parents when I was growing up is that they always knew, often better than I did, what was not only best for me, but would really make me happy. Of course, now I love that about them, but when I was young it always…
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