Lent 2023 First Reading

Friday after Ash Wednesday Isaiah really packs a punch in the first reading for today. I could spend an entire Lent with his words. He says, “would that today you might fast so as to make your voice heard on high! This…is the fasting that I wish: releasing those bound unjustly, untying the thongs ofContinue reading “Lent 2023 First Reading”

What is going on here?

That is what my mom used to say, hands on her hips, to my brothers and me when we were misbehaving in so loud and rambunctious a way, that our play no longer flew under the mom radar. What is going on here? Most of the time, scratch that, ALL of the time, she caughtContinue reading “What is going on here?”

Searching for Justice…a Catholic moment

The Catholic Church and our bishops in particular have been making headlines around the nation. Of course if the Nation is interested in Catholic business it can only mean that there is a controversy in the air. If you have somehow not heard the news I will give it to you in brief. The USContinue reading “Searching for Justice…a Catholic moment”