The Real Holy Family!
This time of year young children in school make snowflake cutouts and post them on classroom and hallway walls. Snowflakes have always been seen as wonderful symbols of purity, symmetry…
This time of year young children in school make snowflake cutouts and post them on classroom and hallway walls. Snowflakes have always been seen as wonderful symbols of purity, symmetry…
A husband and a wife left a party one evening. Once in their car the two of them got into a humdinger of a fight. They noticed that they were…
A young man in Junior High school and his father were alone together on a fishing trip. Out of the clear blue the son asked: “Dad, what is the toughest thing…
You won’t find John the Baptist at any manger scenes or on a Hallmark card, not even Advent cards. He wears a dusty camel’s hair coat, lives on locust and…
One day a family called their parish priest to come over because their elderly grandfather was very sick and dying. The priest came and sat down in the dying man’s…
There was an article that featured e-mails from soldiers in war zones to family members back home. The one that touched me the most was sent by Sgt. First Class…
A darkened sun, a blank moon, crashing stars and the return of Jesus upon the clouds. You know when you hear all this in today’s Gospel (Mark 13: 24-32) you…
There was a man who had nothing. So God gave the man ten apples. Three of the apples God gave him were for food, so the man ate the first…
A meteorologist on TV had a terrible record of forecasting what the weather would be. He became a local joke when the local bloggers began keeping a record of his…
There was a blind, poor and childless beggar who prayed every day that God would reverse his fate. “Dear God, have pity on me!” he prayed. One day God heard his…