The One Fatal Flaw – Sunday Homily
This one flaw in our lives keeps us from setting proper priorities and having healthy relationships. That's why the Faith has as its central focus the medicine that heals a human from this fatal flaw. Are you willing to learn how to confront this flaw and allow the Holy...
The Difference Between Inspiration and Motivation
What's the difference between Inspiration and Motivation? Well, Inspiration usually comes from the outside. I'm inspired by that act of charity, or that life well lived. Motivations, however, are usually internal; that set of desires and drives that either keep me on track or send my life down a...
If You Don’t Pay Attention – Sunday Homily
On this Feast of the Transfiguration, we are directed to see Jesus as Who He really is SO THAT we will finally come to understand who we are meant to be. The steady and purposeful discipline of learning how to pay attention builds your ability to "see the Light." https://youtu.be/BUiJXiYg1gk
Blessed Is The Womb That Bore You!
Today is a major feast day for our Church. Today marks the annual contemplation of an event so monumental that it reveals the nature of what it means to be a human being. Today's feast invites you and me to know our true purpose, and the comfort of true...
Playing Pretend Christian
It's easy to do! And that should be your first clue that something is very deeply wrong with you! Yes, you. Actually, I mean me! I'm talking about the ease at which we will say we believe and then live as if that statement isn't true at all! It's easy...
But You Promised
As a dad, I hate hearing this from my children "But you promised." It is both frustrating and, sometimes, embarrassing because I had, in fact, promised and hadn't followed through! As with most realities in life, it's complicated. Yes, there are times I've said "I promise" and was just saying...
Truth Comforts the Suffering
But Truth is a Person, and that is the key difference in facing suffering from a Christian perspective. Our world is filled with suffering. I was telling a story of my days as a police officer and my struggles (to this day) in dealing with the suffering of children. I...
He Saw With His Own Eyes
Ask any police officer or investigator and they will tell you having an eyewitness to an event is great, and not so great. The reason is eyewitnesses are notorious for filtering what they see through what they think they remember. So, we were trained on how to weed out...
Tell Me HOW it Works!
"But, how does it work?” That was the question burning in my mind as a young, curious, typical pre-teen boy. So, I did what any normal kid would do. I took the clock apart! Still didn’t get my question answered because I didn’t understand the gears and spring system...
This Is A Lonely Place
The Miracle of the Lord feeding the multitude reveals the purpose of the Church. The loneliness of modern society calls on the Church to come to the aid of society to rescue lonely people with the gospel of Jesus Christ https://youtu.be/xuFYtaigy2Q