Second Sunday of Advent (B) 2023 INTRO: How many of you HAVE CERTAIN WAY TO DO THE CHRISTMAS TREE LIGHTS??? I always am criticized as to the way I do them!! Has that criticism ever happen to you? IN REALITY ALL OF US are OPEN TO CRITICISM! Is the criticism, right? Was it fair? Should […]
32 Sunday in Ordinary Time 2023 (A) INTRO: Most people “jump the gun” when this Gospel is read and most people, at first, wonder why the wise “virgins” did not share their oil with the foolish ones to keep their torches burning??? They are thinking: “THAT’S NOT VERY CHRIST-LIKE”!!!! Let me explain… The “OIL” is […]
31ST SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME (A) 2023 Intro: Last week when you were giving out candy on Halloween you saw “children” in a costume and many of them had their faces covered with masks!!! In a church community we are supposed to be recognizable by others as living a good life…. With NO MASKS COVERING […]
28th Sunday in Ordinary Time (A) 2023 INTRO: Do you always wear the right thing? You all look nice today…. BUT are you wearing the right outfits?????? The wedding banquet story in Matthew’s gospel has this UNIQUE confrontation of the generous KING with a guest not wearing the “right thing” or the “correct outfit” according […]
27th Sunday in Ordinary Time (A) INTRO: I am not sure how much you know about the SAINTS, and I have to say I could use a class on the Lives of the Saints, but I do remember some “tid-bits” about many saints. Saint Catherine of Siena is considered a DOCTOR of the CHURCH…she was […]
26th Sunday in Ordinary Time (A) 2023 INTRO: REPENT I always cringe at the word REPENT. It seems so “harsh.” It seems it is directed at someone who had done something BIG. So why am I mentioning this today? Because of: – The first son & – The tax collectors and prostitutes We sort of […]
25th Sunday in Ordinary Time (A) 2023 INTRO: Growing up with siblings…I am sure you all experienced it …. THE OLDER ONES always got privileges!!! *Like staying up later *Or staying out LONGER It is so typical that the younger would say: “This isn’t fair!!!” Well, obviously the impression that things are not fair was […]
23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time (A) INTRO: There were a bunch of guys having an OUTDOOR B-B-Q and it continued into the night…….and got a little noisy. At one point…out of the darkness, appeared a man clothed in pajamas and slippers. He introduced himself politely as “the neighbor from across the street” and asked if […]
22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time (A) 2023 INTRO: A teacher was explaining the STATIONS OF THE CROSS to her class. She got to the FOURTH STATION where Jesus meets his mother Mary on the road to Calvary. She explained that Mary and JESUS were not allowed to SPEAK TO EACH OTHER That MOTHER AND SON […]
19th Sunday in Ordinary Time (A) 2023 INTRO: There is an old JEWISH legend about Moses…. It says when Moses stretched out his staff to divide the water of the Red Sea for the people to cross over….it didn’t divide!!!! ???? IT ONLY divided when an old couple, HAND IN HAND, lovingly, faithfully, and bravely […]