September 15th, 2024 – Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time Happy Sunday! Somehow, we made it to the middle of September. I have no idea where summer went, and the school year is well on its way. For the rest of Ordinary Time, we continue to read the Gospel of Mark….

August 25th, 2024 – Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time “As a result of this, many of the disciples returned to their former way of life and no longer accompanied Jesus. He then said to the Twelve, “Do you also want to leave?”(Gospel of St. John, Ch. 6) Dear Friends, My…

July 28th, 2024 – Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time “Have the people recline.”(Gospel of St. John, ch.6) Dear Friends, So reads the Gospel this Sunday, when Jesus reacts to a large, starving crowd, in anticipation of multiplying a small amount of food to feed the 5,000. I probably would have…

June 30, 2024 – Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time “In the prison of his days, teach the free man how to praise.” Inscription on Memorial stone for W.H. Auden in Westminster Abbey, from his poem, “In Memory of W.B. Yeats”. Dear Friends, Our Gospel today from St. Mark shows the…