New Year’s Eve Ever since I was a little boy I’ve been in love with the month of September. September has always symbolized a new beginning, a fresh start, a […]
New Year’s Eve Ever since I was a little boy I’ve been in love with the month of September. September has always symbolized a new beginning, a fresh start, a […]
That’s the short and purposefully comic response I tell people when good natured parishioners or friends ask me how I remain at OLMC for all these years (fifteen!). Of course, […]
Somewhere between the first and second floors of a roadside motel off of Route 46, in a stuffy, yellowed stairwell that smelled of stale cigarettes, a middle-aged woman approached my […]
“For we are God’s co-workers; you are God’s field, God’s building.” 1 Corinthians 3:9 One of the joys of summer for me has always been celebrating our Feast of Our […]
While we all begin to slowly crawl back to normal—whatever that means these days—I’m thinking a lot about the small joys, those little revelations that sustained me during the long […]
Ah, the images from a pandemic. Some have been deeply depressing, others quite funny, all a bit strange. Love and strangeness in the time of coronavirus I suppose. There was […]
So at the Guerra/Stout house we’re counting day 55 of self-isolation. We’re doing surprisingly well. Of course, it helps to have a spouse that sees adventure in almost anything and […]
Here we are again in September! How’s your sunburn? It is without fanfare and is more of an announcement than a farewell, that after two years I am closing […]
This weekend’s readings are powerful reminders of how we should welcome all! The first reading has the prophet Isaiah speaking about others not like him, writing about “foreigners who join […]
“After the fire there was a tiny whispering sound. When he heard this, Elijah hid his face in his cloak and went and stood at the entrance of the cave” […]