Irish novelist and poet Oliver Goldsmith once said "Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations." How true. But are we left to our own devices concerning our life's journey, or is there wisdom that can guide us and even inform us...
But she looks so innocent! "Get out of the way!" My daughter in the back seat was yelling at the cars in front of us as we were on our way to her dance class. She was frustrated at the amount of traffic in front of us and reacted like...
We live in an age where disturbing language or communicating in a way that makes folks feel uncomfortable is discouraged. And, to be sure, just being provocative or insulting is still rude and undignified. But, the truth is sometimes the truth isn't very pleasant and avoiding the truth to...
I've never done this before. Deal with an estate of someone who has passed, I mean. I've never had to do this before and yet in the span of a few months, I've had to deal with two estates! One, of course is the estate of my father who...
Jewish High Priest at the Ark of the Covenant So, today we are going to discover what makes a priest high! I bet that got your attention. Seriously, the whole notion of a high priest is so foreign to we egalitarian Americans and moderns. We are centuries removed from a time...
Listen to this from St. John Chrysostom: "Upon leaving the house one should without fail say, 'I renounce you, Satan, your pomp and service, and I enter into Your service, O Christ.'" It's so radical in its insistence that we actually take seriously the reality of the spiritual warfare...
"What's my motivation?" It's the question every actor has to ask when they are trying to get into character. What motivates this person to do what he does? Why is this person reacting this way to this situation? And the reason this is so important to an actor is...
Our busy lives really do challenge us in keeping our priorities in the right order, don't they? We moderns are a complicated mishmash of schedules, opportunities, affluence, and "freedom." And that multiplication of events, desires, hopes, and advertisements don't seem to be slowing down. It seems that each new...
It's IMPOSSIBLE to get this Stuff through that Narrow Way! "It's impossible, tell the sun to leave the sky, it's just impossible. It's impossible, ask a baby not to cry, it's just impossible..." OK, that's my best Perry Como. Wait, you don't know who Perry Como is? What are you,...
Leaving footsteps to follow in! "I'm their leader; which way did they go?" I feel like that a lot as a parish priest. Truth is sometimes it's like herding cats to be the leader of a parish community. It seems everyone has their own agenda or vision of "how things...
