Lent 5A John 11:1-45Few things in life hurt as deeply as the loss of a best friend. When your best friend dies too soon. Cancer, Heart attack, Car accident, many of us have lost a best friend and it can leave us devastated. The gospel story for today is [...]
Archive for March, 2005
Fifth Sunday of Lent, 2005
March 12, 20054th Sunday of Lent (Year A)
March 8, 20054th Lent “A” #2A mother whose son was dying of AIDS asked me, “What did we do that God would do this to us?” The father of a 16-year-old mortally wounded in a drive by shooting in Chicago remarked, as his son lay dying on a bed in the hospital emergency room, “He just wouldn’t [...]
3rd Sunday of Lent (Year A)
March 8, 20053rd Lent “A”
I usually try to keep my homilies to just under five minutes, but the gospel today is about four times the normal length, in other words … I hope you are all comfortable.It is high noon when Jesus stops to rest by the well of Jacob. His revelation about life-giving water will soon [...]
Third Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year A)
March 8, 20053rd Sunday, year A
There is a fairly obvious link between the Gospel and the first reading today, one quotes the other. Jesus deliberately chooses to go to Capernaum to start his ministry and call his first disciples in order to fulfill this prophesy of Isaiah. He clearly identifies himself with the one foretold who would [...]
Midnight Mass 2004
March 8, 2005Midnight Mass, 2004
Caesar Augustus issued a decree and set the whole world moving. What power there is in Imperial decree. Caesar speaks and everyone is uprooted. They all return to their native homes. Caesar’s word calls people back to their roots.
Caesar has a purpose. He wants the whole world to be numbered. He is counting [...]
