Month: October 2011

• 31 October 2011

  The Power of Good Example

  Thirty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time Growing up, I didn’t always know what I wanted to be. My sister wanted to play “school” a lot, mostly because my mom was a high school science teacher. So I spent many hours of childhood in a pretend classroom solving math problems and diagramming sentences. I spent the rest of […]
• 26 October 2011

  The Only Kind That Matters

  Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time “I am compassionate,” says the God of Israel in the first reading from the book of Exodus. ‘Compassion’ pertains to ‘the sharing of suffering, or the bearing of hardship with another.’ So the God of Israel declares himself to be one who ‘shares suffering, or bears hardship along with’ his people […]
• 17 October 2011

  Citizens of Heaven Above All

  Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time Let’s talk about taxes.  On second thought, let’s not.  As the next election cycle rhetoric has gotten louder over the past few months, and as it gets even louder in the months ahead, I’m sure many more people who know what they are talking about, plus a handful of those who […]