There was a beggar who came every week to ask a very wealthy man for money. And every week the rich man gave him a generous gift.  But one day…

One day a man was walking through the park on his lunch hour. He saw two men digging a hole on a hot, humid, August day.  He observed something very,…

One day a grandmother was enjoying an all-day visit with her 5-year old grandson. He followed her around all day. He even sat down by her side in the evening when…

Have you ever stood somewhere at night where it was perfectly dark all around you? You looked up into the sky and your jaw dropped in amazement at the wonder…

A couple of hundred years ago, before electricity and smart phones, a rabbi asked his students: “How do you know when the night has ended and the day has begun before…

On Christmas Day a small manger scene sat on a table just inside the doorway to a neatly kept home. People hurried past it all day. They barely noticed the…

There is a true story about a husband and a wife who left a party one evening and got into their car to drive home. Once in the car the…

“Two different worlds….We live in two different worlds….” These words of an old song are really true, aren’t they? We do live in two different worlds. We’re born that way…the haves…

Today is the Second Sunday of Advent. In the Gospel (Matthew 3:1-12) we listen to a most unpleasant prophet, John the Baptist. John the Baptist is not a popular figure…

Today, the First Sunday of Advent, is the only Sunday in Advent when we will hear the voice of Jesus (Matthew 24:37-44). St. John the Baptist will be talking the next…