Homily for Trinity Sunday 2021 Throughout history people have believed in many deities, numerous gods.   The Jewish people were unique.  ...

Homily for the 27 th Sunday Ordinary Time, Cycle A  -- October 4, 2020 Broomtree Retreat Center, Irene, South Dakota   In our second read...

Is Jesus serious?  In today's Gospel (23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time, Cycle C: Luke 14: 25-33) he is quoted as saying "If anyone come...

The first reading for the 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time, Cycle C, from Sirach chapter 3 and the Gospel from Luke chapter 14 are about humilit...

Last evening and today I celebrated four Masses in South Dakota prairie towns--Faith, Red Owl, and Mud Butte.  These places are served by a ...

I am at St. Nicholas church in Valentine, Nebraska this weekend.  All of Nebraska celebrated last Thursday as a holyday of obligation, the f...

In today's first reading at Mass (from the Book of Nehemiah, chapter 8) the Israelites gather to listen to Nehemiah proclaim the Word of...

I became an uncle at the ripe age of seven and so I wasn't much older than my nieces and nephews.  Sometimes when I played with them and...

Today's Gospel (Mark 10: 35-45) is preceded by Jesus' third prediction in Mark's Gospel about his impending suffering, death, an...

In the Gospel at Mass today (26th Sunday, Ordinary Time, Cycle B) from the 9th chapter of Mark, Jesus mentions "Gehenna" three tim...

In the Gospel at Mass today (Mark 8: 27-35) Jesus asks his disciples what people are thinking and saying about him.  "Who do people say...

If you had to make a choice, would you rather be blind or deaf?  I count among my Jesuit friends one who is blind and one who is deaf.  Havi...

In the summer of 2006 I made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land.  Our group of about 45 stayed in various hotels around Israel where every mornin...

The following is the homily for the 20th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Cycle B, which I gave this weekend.  Bishop Robert Gruss has asked the p...

Today is the feast of the Native American saint, Kateri Tekakwitha.  At St. Francis Mission we have an outdoor statue of her and this morn...

Usually the Church celebrates a feast on the death date of a saint.  That is their "birthday" into heaven.  But for three people w...

At our grade school--Sapa Un Catholic Academy It's over a year since my last post and 10 and a half months since I left the Apostles...