Trinity Sunday 2020 INTRO: My Father was called: DAD Sometimes: DADDY Or POPS My mom of course called him JOHN And He called my mom: PEACH Everybody’s got a name ……. A “given” name or a nick-name! The names of GOD Is what we celebrate today! God the Father, God the Son and God the […]
Pentecost Sunday ABC 2020 INTRO: Tell story of the smashed in JAGUAR CAR DOOR. A young executive was tooling down a street a bit too fast in his new shiny, sporty JAGUAR, but, when he got to an area where there were a number of parked cars he slowed down watching for kids darting out […]
Ascension Sunday 2020 INTRO: Some of you have heard this story, but a couple of years ago….on a Mother’s Day….I received a “Mother’s Day” card!!!!!!!!!!! It was from my older sister…who was organizing and cleaning out some “MEMORABILIA” of my mom’s after she had died. What she found were several pictures of me and mom […]
Sixth Sunday of Easter (A) 2020 INTRO: So, let me ask you at home ……. What is the ONE most important rule in your home, even if you live alone? For the Singler kids it was: TO MAKE UP OUR BEDS BEFORE WE WENT OFF TO SCHOOL. LOL….. Till this very day, I STILL DO […]
Fifth Sunday of Easter 2020 (A) INTRO: Okay… I am going to say it first, and then I will ask you to please say it with me… “In my Father’s house there are many dwelling places!” I bet you can answer this at home: Who is Jesus talking to? I hope you answered: His APOSTLES […]
Fourth Sunday of Easter A – 2020 INTRO: I have been in a car before as the driver and many times ……. the “back street driver person” next to me all of a sudden says….. “Hey, Jim, I know a shortcut…. Don’t go that way.” I hate shortcuts! Part of it is I am somewhat […]
Third Sunday of Easter (A) 2020 INTRO: I see more and more people, spending time walking around these days during this pandemic …. Right here on Portage Trail; husbands and wives, families; even Kira and Jeff from the Life Teen Band took their 3 kids to INDIGO LAKE the other day for a nature hike…trying […]
The Easter Vigil in the Holy Night 2020 INTRO: I was never very good in GEOGRAPHY… navigating a map, where’s east west north or south… I still have a difficult time saying “I have to go UP to Cleveland”! LOL Anyway, there is a bit of “symbolic” GEOGRAPHY to point out tonight! Jesus was born […]
GOOD FRIDAY 2020 INTRO: I am sure you all have seen pictures or may even have visited SAINT PETER’S BASILICA. Try and imagine that high altar and the Bernini columns holding up the baldachin over the altar… BREATHTAKING. When I did visit Rome in 2008 the art tour guide took us priests on a tour […]
Holy Thursday 2020 INTRO There is a set place for you and me…… + When we were kids ….. There was a set place for each of us at the dinner table. I was always to the right of my father…. I was a S L O W – eater and he could help me […]