Sep 21: Day by Day with Father Bill
FEAST OF SAINT MATTHEW, APOSTLE AND EVANGELIST As we prepare for Election Day, November 3, on occasion, I will be using this forum to share with you some thoughts and materials to help you form your conscience as you prepare to cast your ballot. Remember that the Church can never direct you into voting in […]
Sep 20: Day by Day with Father Bill
TWENTY-FIFTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Saint Pope John Paul II wrote about the difference between the weekend mentality and a proper Christian Sunday observance: “Unfortunately, when Sunday loses its fundamental meaning and becomes merely part of a weekend, it can happen that people stay locked within a horizon so limited that they can no longer […]
Sep 19: Day by Day with Father Bill
SATURDAY OF THE TWENTY-FOURTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME From Pope Francis’ Apostolic Exhortation on Holiness, Gaudate et Exsultate (Rejoice and Be Glad) Our defense of the innocent unborn, for example, needs to be clear, firm and passionate, for at stake is the dignity of a human life, which is always sacred and demands love for […]
Sep 20 Homily Connect: God’s Generosity
Twenty-Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time, September 20, 2020 IS 55:6-9 PHIL 1:20c-24, 27A, MT 20:1-16A Scripture Summon the laborers and give them their pay,beginning with the last and ending with the first.’When those who had started about five o’clock came,each received the usual daily wage. So when the first came, they thought that they would […]
Sep 18: Day by Day with Father BIll
FRIDAY OF THE TWENTY-FOURTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME Every Day I see or hear something that more or less kills me with delight, that leaves me like a needle in the haystack of light, It is what I was born for – to look, to listen, to lose myself inside this soft world – to […]
Sep 17: Day by Day with Father Bill
THURSDAY OF THE TWENTY-FOURTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME You enfold me, entwine and embrace me. You handle me, hold me and hide me. You wrestle me, welcome and want me. Your chin by my ear, your hand in my hair, your arm ’round my back, my arms rounding you, my face on your chest; I’m […]
Sep 16: Day by Day with Father Bill
MEMORIAL OF SAINTS CORNELIUS, POPE AND CYPRIAN, BISHOP, MARTYRS I have been meditating on the story of the prodigal son. It is a story about returning, I realize the importance of returning over and over again. My life drifts away from God, I have to return. My heart moves away from my first love. I […]
Sep 15: Day by Day with Father Bill
MEMORIAL OF OUR LADY OF SORROWS -From a prayer offered by Pope Francis in Fatima, May, 2017: Hail, our life and our sweetness. Hail, our hope. A pilgrim Virgin, a universal Queen! From the depths of your being, in your immaculate heart, you see the joys of human beings when they journey toward the heavenly […]
Sep 14: Day by Day with Father Bill
FEAST OF THE EXULTATION OF THE CROSS Here are two reflections from Ann Weems’ Kneeling in Jerusalem: I. The sky peels back to purple and the thunder slaps the thighs of heaven and all the tears of those who grieve fly up to clouds and are released and drench the earth. The ones who […]
Sep 13: Day by Day with Father Bill
TWENTY-FOURTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Nineteen years ago on Tuesday, September 11, I remember being comforted by the liturgical year and its readings for September 13, the Memorial of St Bishop John Chrysostom, September 14, the Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross, and September 15, the Memorial of Our Lady of Sorrows, which, by […]