Sunday, September 26, 2021

No bodily impairment keeps us from Kingdom Joy, but sin does – Mark 9:38-48

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 Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B ; St. Ann's. There’s really no good transition from plucking eyes out to anything else, so...
Sunday, September 19, 2021

Jesus embraces us – Mark 9:30-37; James 3:16-4:3

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 Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B ; St. Ann's / Chapel of Mary. There’s a puzzle that British newspapers like to publish cal...
Sunday, September 12, 2021

The love of Christ urges us on – Mark 8:27-35

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 Twenty-fourth Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year B ; St. Ann's. Mr. Rogers used to say that whenever some disaster strikes and we feel scare...
Sunday, September 5, 2021

Jesus heals our hearing and speaking – Mark 7:31-37.

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 23rd Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year B ; St. Peter's, Provincetown. I was talking to a friend of mine this week who also teaches college ...
Sunday, August 15, 2021

Christ’s resurrection ripples raise us up – 1 Cor 15:20-27, Lk 1:39-56 (Assumption)

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Solemnity of the Assumption ; St. Andrew's, Taunton. Some things can’t help but spread.  Laughter would be one, hiccups definitely anoth...
Sunday, August 8, 2021

God is enough for our “much” – 1 Kings 19:4-8

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 Nineteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year B ; Chapel of Mary (Stonehill College). Our first reading teaches us that, when things feel too mu...
Sunday, May 23, 2021

God prays through us – Rom 8:22-27, John 7:37-39 (Pentecost Vigil)

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 Pentecost Vigil ; Basilica of the Sacred Heart. I am the proud sponsor of a pipe. Not a pipe you smoke, or a pipe that carries water or oil...