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August 2025

August 26, 2025
Any time we've made spiritual progress, we should expect to be tested and will probably...
August 23, 2025
Putting everything together for school takes a lot of physical time and all the mental...
August 19, 2025
Every year we hear this gospel about the rich good young man who went away...
August 17, 2025
The easiest path to joy, is to count your blessings.   This weekend, I saw all...
August 14, 2025
I keep thinking of the line from "The Chronicles of Narnia," "He's not a tame...
August 12, 2025
We live in a world that seems very binary.  There's a meme about how "Christian"...
August 11, 2025
Today, thirty-five years ago, I married the love of my life. I know it's been...
August 08, 2025
When I first began blogging, a site called "Faith and Family" ran a regular posting,...
August 06, 2025
I was today years old when I realized, I keep the door shut on grief....
August 04, 2025
Last week, we heard my favorite Gospel passage.  “Ask and  you shall receive, seek and...
August 01, 2025
Summer is a time when everything comes due.  All the paperwork I need to complete,...

July 2025

July 07, 2025
Back in '77 and '78, I went to Camp Mystic. The pictures splashed over CNN,...

June 2025

June 25, 2025
Having lived through raising ten kids over the past three decades, I've become an expert...
June 25, 2025
Back in 2001, our associate pastor introduced the parish to the "Total Consecration of Jesus...
June 20, 2025
So what I done lately? Well, I used to have Small Success Thursday, so I...
June 08, 2025
We don't call on the Holy Spirit enough.   The third person of the Trinity...
June 01, 2025
We live in a world full of ungoverned passions, and are fast becoming a people...

May 2025

May 13, 2025
So we have before us, this precious time.  Yesterday, I learned about a tragedy involving...
May 03, 2025
I watch cooking competitions all the time, like Guy Fieri's "Tournament of Champions." (Yeah Antonia...

April 2025

April 30, 2025
First, he really said this: And second, syncophants nearly wet themselves tweeting what a fantastic...
April 25, 2025
Pope Francis died Easter Monday and the world has lost a good and faithful servant...
April 14, 2025
I'd decided not to listen to the news this week, in an attempt to turn...
April 07, 2025
If there is a way to misunderstand God, we in our freewill and predisposition to...

March 2025

March 29, 2025
We live in a world that cannot bear the reality of reality.  The cross itself...
March 19, 2025
We live in difficult times, but in truth, we have always lived in difficult times...
March 17, 2025
This week, I finally got to see the animated film that won best feature for...
March 10, 2025
This morning, I woke and felt like somehow, I'd missed Lent even though it only...
March 08, 2025
With all due respect to Elon Musk's vaulted opinion, given credence by the number of...
March 03, 2025
I own a dog.  She's cute and friendly and endlessly entertaining.  What she doesn't do,...

February 2025

February 26, 2025
These days, if you look at the news, there's a strong case to be made...
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