(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) Most Godly people are acquainted with shame. Saints and prophets often grow from that fertile dirt. The readings for the fifth Sunday of Ordinary Time document it: “Woe is me,…
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) What’s the difference between doing whatever it takes not to die, vs. doing whatever it takes to live? The first goal is driven by fear. The second by lack of…
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) Author’s note: The following message from Kathy O’Brien-Carter, daughter of St. Michael parishioner Joe O’Brien, inspired this week’s meditation: “Recently a friend from St. Michael’s texted me a photo of…
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) Mary taught Jesus a lesson at the Cana wedding feast before Jesus taught one to its headwaiter. It’s always time to serve the good stuff. So when the choice wine…
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) The artificial intelligence era promises news-breaking solutions to the world’s greatest problems. That’s how people saw the coming of the Messiah thousands of years ago—as the advent of earthshattering change!…
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) How’s this for an epiphany: “I saw that the sacred hoop of my people was one of many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and…
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) Nothing gets us closer to the divinity of the Holy family than the rebellion of our human family. What’s the picture we get of Jesus this Sunday? A kid who…
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) The gift of divine incarnation broke all the rules of the human jungle. Rule one is that only the strong survive. That means the small and powerless become food for…
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) Comedian George Carlin made people laugh, but he carried in his heart the anger of a confused atheist who lost faith in a God whose divine plan—he believed—could be changed…
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) Sunday’s responsorial psalm was turned into a hymn that would eventually give our pop culture the raw materials it needed to stereotype Christians and Christianity. It did so through a…