(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) On the fourth Sunday of Lent we celebrate reconciliation. This word has a couple different meanings, but in Sunday’s readings those differences are reconciled. The first: “to restore friendly relations;…
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) Mankind’s most serious sin is taking the Lord’s name in vain; not so much the GD and JC stuff, but the big I AM. We don’t often appreciate the importance…
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) On this the second week of Lent, we receive an important reminder to help us stay focused on why this is such an important time in the Church year. Yes,…
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) Here’s a meditation to resurrect your dead New Year’s resolutions into living Lenten ones: “We give thanks for the gifts [last year] broughtAnd how they became inlaid within,Where neither time…
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) The best toys put kids to work. You’ll often see ads for such toys online, aimed at adults as well. Some use optical illusions and often shocking imagery to win…
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) Go to enough Lenten fish fries, and you might associate them with cod, fries and pierogi. Those are popular components, but the primary ingredients of such events are blood, sweat…
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) Paul Simon (of Simon and Garfunkel fame) wrote so many songs with Christian overtones that a puzzled Paul McCartney once asked him, “Aren’t you Jewish?” Yes, by upbringing, but Simon…
(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…