As I struggled this week to get words on paper, I remembered again that, by any metric, Mother’s Day beats Father’s Day. Mother’s Day was made a holiday back in 1913, Father’s Day took all the way till 1972. Average weekend spending for mother’s day $300, average for Father’s day $200. Hallmark sells 50 million…
So this is why I think we all benefit from marital preparation in any way, at any time. Marriage-to work, to others, to God himself-is a sacramental bond specially blessed by God. But they can only form and transform us if we prepare and discipline ourselves to endure the ups and downs of those relationships. …
Today’s reading reminds us that the evil tries first to isolate us in order to defeat us. St. Peter writes that the evil one prowls around the faithful like a lion, we are safe together, but vulnerable when isolated. As Christians, we need each other; we need to share each other’s triumphs and our trials. …
So perhaps all peoples take themselves too seriously, too often. This is where our faith comes in and its helpful to recall that God seems to have baked humor and laughter into his creation. ‘Alone among the animals, man is shaken with that beautiful madness called laughter,’ said Chesterton, ‘as if he had caught sight…
I would like to start today’s Easter sermon with a few questions. ‘How many of you sent out hundreds of Easter Cards this year?” “Has anyone attended a work or family Easter party?” “Is anyone sick of hearing endless Easter carols on the radio and endless Easter-themed television specials?” That’s what I thought, almost nobody.Thank…
‘In the short run, the market is a voting machine; but in the long run, it is a weighing machine.’ I don’t usually quote billionaire investors to begin sermons, but Warren Buffett said this, and they call him the ‘Oracle of Omaha’ for a reason. His inciteful words capture something deep about human behavior and…
We must remember these words and think of them especially now, through Lent. But the most important words in the parable come at the very beginning, when the Master asks the Steward: “What is this I hear about you? Give me an account of your stewardship!” (Lk 16:2). This is the point Jesus was making…