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 […]
Third Sunday in Lent (A) 2020 INTRO: Does anyone have a favorite number? (6) (7) ???? I will leave you with ONE THOUGHT today: The woman at the well…. how many husbands did she have already? Jesus tells her that he knows she had 5 husbands …… and the one she is with NOW is […]
Second Sunday in Lent (A) 2020 INTRO: I know people who climb mountains. They explain that depending on the 1. MOUNTAIN HEIGHT, 2. THE TRAIL YOU FOLLOW, and your 3. PHYSICAL ENDURANCE it can be a hard trek! They also admit you see God’s creation at its most magnificence along the way! For most of […]
First Sunday of Lent (A) 2020 INTRO: I remember that my two younger sisters each had a “security blanket” ……. raggy and dirty to a degree!!!! And I remember frantically trying to look for it when they seemed to have lost it…SUCH TANTRUMS….they couldn’t last living without it until it was in their hands! That […]
7th Sunday in Ordinary Time (A) Confirmation Retreat Day ending with the 4:30pm Mass INTRO: Let’s play SPELLING BEE…… But, let’s do it in your minds …… spell the word: EASY “It is EASY for me to boil water…. EASY” Now, think about this: What is something that you do that you consider EASY? -could […]
Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time (A) INTRO: “LET YOUR YES MEAN YES AND YOUR NO MEAN NO” Well, it just was VALENTINE”S Day…. and no I didn’t buy a VALENTINE’S DAY CARD, but, my oldest sister has a Valentine’s birthday…. So I was in the card shop looking for a card. The clerk was “stocking” […]
Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time (A) INTRO: I have three sisters The youngest: creative cooking Enthusiastic Color on the plate Herbs Innovative!!!!! The middle sister: also a wonderful cook and hostess! Now there is The oldest SISTER: NO ONE wants to go over to her house!!!!!!!… For dinner!!!! We do go over, but the SILENT […]