Feb. 18: Day by Day with Father Bill
THURSDAY AFTER ASH WEDNESDAY – from The Wisdom Pattern: Order, Disorder, Reorder by Father Richard Rohr, OFM Let us be present to the now. It’s all we have and it’s where God will always speak to us. The now holds everything, rejects nothing and, therefore, can receive God, too. Help us, God, to be present to […]
Feb. 17: Day by Day with Father Bill
ASH WEDNESDAY -from the Episcopal priest and poet, Malcolm Guite Receive this cross of ash upon your brow, Brought from the burning of Palm Sunday’s cross; The forests of the world are burning now And you make late repentance for the loss. But all the trees of God would clap their hands, The […]
Feb. 16: Day by Day with Father Bill
TUESDAY OF THE SIXTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME Snow Fall by May Sarton With no wind blowing It sifts gently down, Enclosing my world in A cool white down, A tenderness of snowing. It falls and falls like sleep Till wakeful eyes can close On all the waste and loss As peace comes in and […]
Feb. 15: Day by Day with Father Bill
MONDAY OF THE SIXTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME Here is Amanda Gorman’s Super Bowl Poem, Chorus of the Captains: Today we honor our three captains For their actions and impact in a time of uncertainty and need. They’ve taken the lead, Exceeding all expectations and limitations, Uplifting their communities and neighbors As leaders, healers, and educators. […]
Feb. 13/14: Day by Day with Father Bill – Weekend Edition
In the wake of 27 new inches of snowfall on the East Coast, with snowflakes still falling, Punxsutawney Phil, in a virtual event held at Gobbler’s Knob Park in Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, surrounded by cutouts of fans, on February 2, predicted six more weeks of winter. Try to pack more information than the above into […]
Homily Connect Feb 14: Finding God in All
Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time MARK 1:40-45 Scripture A leper came to Jesus and kneeling down begged him and said, “If you wish, you can make me clean.” Moved with pity, he stretched out his hand, touched him, and said to him, “I do will it. Be made clean.” The leprosy left him immediately, and he was […]
Feb. 12: Day by Day with Father Bill
FRIDAY OF THE FIFTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME Birthday of President Abraham Lincoln, 1809 -an excerpt from Henrietta Cordelia Ray’s poem Lincoln first read at the unveiling of the Emancipation Memorial in Washington, DC in April of 1878: Eleven years have rolled their seasons round, Since its most tragic close thy life-work found. Yet through the vistas […]
Feb. 11: Day by Day with Father Bill
THURSDAY OF THE FIFTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME Even Jesus’ own family thought that he was out of his mind. At times Jesus, like every prophet who preceded him or followed after him, found himself going against the grain. Sometimes the idolization of the status quo can paralyze us in our mission to bring the Good News […]
Feb. 10: Day by Day with Father Bill
MEMORIAL OF SAINT SCHOLASTICA (SISTER OF SAINT BENEDICT), VIRGIN -from the Austrian poet and novelist Rainer Maria Rilke’s Book of the Hours: God speaks to each of us as [God] makes us, then walks with us silently out of the night. These are the words we dimly hear: You, sent out beyond your recall, […]
Feb. 9: Day by Day with Father Bill
TUESDAY OF THE FIFTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME -from Father General Pedro Arrupe (1907-1991), [who witnessed the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6, 1945] affirming that the essence of the human vocation is to fall in love with God: What you are in love with, what seizes your imagination, will affect […]