Singing at Mass, now here’s a subject to talk about. Raise your hand if you get annoyed when the people sitting directly behind you in Mass sing loud enough to drown out….well, everything. Right there with ya. If they have good voices it’s not so bad. Used to bother me more than it does […]
There’s an elephant in the room. The problem we keep turning away from, feeling either powerless to solve it or unwilling to do the hard work necessary to put it behind us. Try as we might to ignore it, there comes a time when we either deal with it or get trampled underfoot. Recently, we […]
Long before I began learning God’s plan for our sexuality, I confronted the issue of abortion. Wasn’t because of a family crisis or a poor decision I made. I just felt I needed to have a viewpoint. I needed to take a side. I didn’t do exhaustive research. I didn’t talk to friends and family […]
I’m not the man God is calling me to be. A little more than 10 years ago, I didn’t care who God was calling me to be. I wasn’t listening to him. I believed he existed but I knew nothing about him, or His son, or the Holy Spirit. But in late 2005 I made […]
Even though I’d sworn off working another Confirmation Mass, I’d still have to face large crowds at Mass and all the internal conflicts that come with them. The Easter following that fateful Confirmation Mass, our 11:30AM team was up. I’d worked one Easter before, in Wichita, and I arrived that morning expecting chaos and wondering […]