What You DO HAVE
A teenage boy once said to God: “I’ve been thinking God….I know what I want when I grow up….I want to live in a big house with a nice garden and…
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A Pearl of Great Price
In the musical, Fiddler on the Roof, Tevye and his wife Golda have five daughters. It’s time for their oldest daughter to get married. In those days the parents would ask…
Weeds or Seeds?
There is a story about a priest who was upset with the man who lived across the street from the church. The man was a Catholic, but he never went…
Let God Do the Rest
We’ve all heard the old adage, “Life is what you make it!” Someone once said, “Life is 10% what you make it and 90% how you take it.” How do…
The Cross You Carry
“Whoever loves his father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves his son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me; and…
We Are Often Short-Sighted
A young father-to-be was pacing back and forth, wringing his hands in the hospital corridor while his wife was in labor. His stomach was tied up in knots of fear…
The Person That Needs It the Most
In 1970 I was just ordained and I was serving at Our Lady of the Brook, a new parish in Northbrook, a northwest suburb of Chicago. Sr. JoAnn, our religious…
When God Taps Us on the Shoulder
One day a priest was sitting at the airport waiting for his flight. A man sitting next to him struck up a conversation with him. He said: “Father, I only…
The Waves That Always Come
One day when I was sitting down at the beach, I was watching two children, a little boy and a little girl playing in the sand. They were hard at…
What God the Father Will Say to You Someday
Long before God created our world and the billions of people who would live on earth, God was planning the salvation for every person. While we were only an idea…
