For the past year or so, I’ve been affiliated with the folks over at Liturgical Publications, based in Wisconsin, writing material for their homiletics newsletter, “Connect!”. They have a wide array of resources for preachers and parishes — everything from bulletin inserts to cartoons to essays and commentaries to help catechists and homilists. They also…

On this Trinity Sunday, I’m going to do something a little different. This morning, you won’t be hearing any complex theology, no explanation of the “hypostatic union,” and no stories about St. Patrick and shamrocks. Instead, I’d like to ask you to think for just a moment about something that makes you sublimely happy. Maybe…

The nice people over at “Busted Halo”, an online magazine run by the Paulists, have printed an essay of mine, adapted from my first homily. And, to my astonishment, it’s now getting a wider circulation, thanks to the venerable blog “Whispers in the Loggia”. The Wizard of “Whispers,” Rocco Palmo, has added some kind words…

Christianity is a religion that grew on its feet. From Jesus, who walked from town to town…to the apostles, who journeyed into the farthest reaches of the Roman Empire…to missionaries who ventured into uncharted, often dangerous territory to spread the gospel…Christianity has been a movement spread by movement. Today we celebrate the very first incidence…

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