I have been talking with the kids I teach about Advent these past few days. As a liturgical season, I think Advent is the second to least understood, behind Ordinary Time as the least understood of the seasons ( Read more... )

There are so many emotions surrounding the simple phrase; I'm going home. After being in St. Louis two days shy of three months, I'm going home. I'm only going to be home for five days, twelve hours and twenty-four minutes, but just the same, I'm going home ( Read more... )

I was looking at news.google.com and I saw thisThey're advocating for killing babies. Infant children because they're "inconvenient". Now, last time I checked, children are difficult to raise. Even the healthy ones can be a pain. Anyway, this makes me sick. Killing the child because they're disabled is a horrible thing... it disables a family ( Read more... )

This is the first time in two years that I have been sick. I don't feel right, I don't think right, and pretty much all I want to do is sleep and hope it goes away.

Prayers welcome :)

Being away from home is tough. Fortunately, I have the connections that make it possible for me to make do in certain situations ( Read more... )

Driving back from going to confession, I was reflecting on the experience of being in the confessional as the penitent. Now, I am not the most sinful guy, and I am quite certain that the priest hears confessions of things far worse than what I have done. Just the same, it is hard to go into the confessional and say "See, this is where I was ( Read more... )

This is what happens when you order from Amazon.com and put in your address as 2404 instead of what it actually is, 4204 ( Read more... )

Well, I fell asleep at 2:30ish this afternoon, and just woke up about 40 minutes ago. I was tired for all the Masses, and when I'm tired, it seems odd things tend to happen ( Read more... )

Well, jumping online after a long day of Masses, a friend of mine gave me this linkIn looking in what he has said, lets take a look at where his words and his actions don't line up. His words say that if Benedict XVI attacked him, he would respond with good things. Now, I ask the question, what are these good things? Well, lets look at the ( Read more... )

Well, this isn't the end of my blogging days, but the purpose of my blog has been fulfilled. I currently have two projects running in addition to my duties in the Parish. So, I am taking communion to the sick, teaching in the schools, serving Masses and doing a slew of other church-related things. In addition to that, I have been working on a ( Read more... )