March 24

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Back in my seminary days, I had a professor who described three distinct experiences of time for human beings. The first is the most straightforward which is chronological. Seconds, minutes, hours, days, etc. are the markers of...

March 17

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Much of what we think of and consider in our Lenten season consists of penance and sacrifice. We give things up that we enjoy, we fast from food and other treats, we restrain our desires so as to be more focused on God. But there’s...

March 10

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Sometimes things such as ministries and events tend to run their course. It could be a certain fundraiser that people seem to lose interest in. Sometimes it’s a particular ministry where the need for it in the parish diminishes...

March 3

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Please bear with me in my letter this week. I promise that it is getting somewhere, it just might take me a bit to get there. Writing things down was not the first impulse of the Early Church. We know this from the Gospels in...

February 25

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, I love the Catholic Church! You may be thinking that’s an odd thing to start a letter with. But this topic has been swirling around in my head for the last several weeks about how wonderful the Church truly is, particularly for the...