Bulletins and Homilies

Please raise your hand if you were baptized as an infant and have considered yourself a Christian your whole life (pause).  Looks like that is most people here today.  In just a few moments, (infant’s name: Vincent, Emilio, Reyna) will join us as a Christian through...

Rituals are a common everyday occurrence in our lives. There are academic rituals, such as commencements and convocations. Common civil rituals include inaugurations or speeches like the State of the Union Address. Family rituals are numerous, from birthday parties...

We just heard Jesus start this gospel passage by saying to his disciples, “I have much more to tell you, but you cannot bear it now.”  It sounds like Jesus is protecting his disciples from some unbearable news—but we all know they eventually had to face it.  The...

Everyone seems to love a mystery.  I first became fascinated with mystery when I read Hound of the Baskerville’s in high school.  Just the other night, Amy and I were watching the latest movie adaptation of Murder on the Orient Express.  I have to confess that I am a...

On 12 April 1961 the Soviet cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin, was the first person to enter outer space and orbit the earth.  Some sources attribute the following statement to Nikita Khrushchev: “Gagarin flew into space, but didn’t see any God there”. This statement points to...

Promises, Paraclete and Peace Do we have ‘ANY’ of these OR do we have ‘ALL’ of them? Are they…’WHAT’ we think they are? Abandonment!         A boy, at the age of six, was PUT on a city bus by his older brother and was told to stay on until the end of the line. Across...