Month: September 2016

• 25 September 2016

  Reasonable Expectations

  

  26th Sunday in Ordinary Time Some years back when I was a newly-ordained priest teaching at an all-boys Catholic high school in New Orleans, my students would confront me on occasion with outrageous statements of disbelief. “You’re a priest. You can’t do that.” “And what exactly am I not supposed to do?” I would ask. […]
• 4 September 2016

  More Than Just a Fan

  23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time In the fall of 2010 after the Parish Council retreat, I invited the people of St. John to consider the path before us. At that time, I had been pastor here for 4 years, and my term was ending after 6, but was also seriously considering hanging around for another […]