Oct 31: Day by Day with Father Bill
SATURDAY OF THE THIRTIETH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME ALL-HALLOWS’ EVE Here’s a link for your Halloween celebration: For us Christians, we are not afraid of spooky-scary death (nor skeletons, either) for Jesus has conquered death and promises us the precious gift of eternal life, light, and love! Be safe! Stay healthy! Father Bill +
Nov 1 Homily Connect: Holiness
Solemnity of All Saints, November 1, 2020 REV 7:2-4, 9-14 JN 3:13, MT 5:1-12 Scripture When Jesus saw the crowds, he went up the mountain, and after he had sat down, his disciples came to him. He began to teach them, saying: “Blessed are…” Vatican II Church Fathers Very Clear All baptized believers and disciples of […]
Oct 30: Day by Day with Father Bill
FRIDAY OF THE THIRTIETH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME Hope by Alice Dunbar-Nelson Wild seas of tossing, writhing waves, A wreck half-sinking in the tortuous gloom; One man clings desperately, while Boreas* raves, And helps to blot the rays of moon and star, Then comes a sudden flash of light, which gleams on shores afar. * […]
Oct 29: Day by Day with Father Bill
THURSDAY OF THE THIRTIETH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME On October 10, Pope Francis participated in the virtual TED [Technology, Education, Design] Countdown Global Launch. I would like to share with you some of the highlights of the Holy Father’s address. I would like to propose three courses of action. As I wrote in Laudato Si, […]
Oct 28: Day by Day with Father Bill
FEAST OF SAINTS SIMON AND JUDE, APOSTLES On October 10, Pope Francis participated in the virtual TED [Technology, Education, Design] Countdown Global Launch. I would like to share with you some of the highlights of the Holy Father’s Address. Our conscience tells us that we cannot remain indifferent to the suffering of those in need, […]
Oct 27: Day by Day with Father Bill
TUESDAY OF THE THIRTIETH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME Jesus wants us to receive the love he offers. He wants nothing more than that we allow him to love us and enjoy that love. This is so hard since we always feel that we have to deserve the love offered to us. But Jesus wants to […]
Oct 26: Day by Day with Father Bill
MONDAY OF THE THIRTIETH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME “Lord, take me where You want me to go; Let me meet who You want me to meet; Tell me what You want me to say, and Keep me out of Your way.” -Father Mychal Judge, OFM, the first person who had died to be taken out […]
Oct 25: Day by Day with Father Bill
THIRTIETH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME PRAYER by Padraig O Tuama Jesus where some people saw winning you saw the stories of everyone who’d lost before. And while you could easily win you most often pointed towards the populations who’d been excluded. You became excluded. And are excluded still. Gather us all in the corners of […]
Oct 25 Homily Connect: Love Your Neighbor
Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time, October 25, 2020 Ex-22:20-26 1Thes 1:5c-10, 37-39 MT 22:34-40 Scripture “Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?” He said to him, “You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and the first […]
Oct 24: Day by Day with Father Bill
SATURDAY IN THE TWENTY-NINTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME From Father Ron Rolheiser, OMI: [According to James Hillman,] the best wines have to be aged in cracked, old barrels. And so too the human soul, it mellows, takes on character, and comes to compassion only when there are real cracks, painful ones, in the body and life […]