Feb. 8: Day by Day with Father Bill
MONDAY OF THE FIFTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME The New Serenity Prayer by Father James Martin, SJ God, grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, which is pretty much everyone, since I’m clearly not you, God. At least the last time I checked. And while you’re at it, God, please give […]
Feb 7 Homily Connect: Recharge Each Day
Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time JB 7:1-4, 6-7 1COR 9:16-19, 22-23 MK 1:29-39 Scripture Rising very early before dawn, he left and went off to a deserted place, where he prayed. The Gospel’s Photo Album Photo #1 Peter’s Mother-in-Law – Jesus’ healing touch Photo #2 Sunset Peter’s house in Capernaum – Many broken hurting people cured […]
Day by Day with Father Bill: Weekend Edition with guest columnist Tom Walter
Liturgical Music “Musings” by Tom Walter Dear Good People of St. Mary! My two previous articles focused on the theological virtues of Faith and Hope. This article is about Charity (Love), the last of those virtues. The Catechism states that growing in virtue “is a lifelong task to strengthen your willpower to choose what is […]
Feb. 5: Day by Day with Father Bill
MEMORIAL OF SAINT AGATHA, VIRGIN AND MARTYR -from “Saint John of the Cross and the Divine Alchemy” by Father Billy Swan When God’s love finds us, it is not content to encounter us and leave us outside itself. Like two lovers who meet and whose first reaction is to embrace, so the love […]
Feb. 4: Day by Day with Father Bill
THURSDAY OF THE FOURTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME -from “Making Sandwiches for my Daughters” by Andre Dubus A sacrament is physical, and within it is God’s love; as a sandwich is physical, and nutritious and pleasurable, and within it is love, if someone makes it for you and gives it to you with love; […]
Feb. 3: Day by Day with Father Bill
WEDNESDAY OF THE FOURTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME OPTIONAL MEMORIAL OF SAINT BLAISE, BISHOP AND MARTYR -from the Irish poet, Padraig O Tuama A reading from the book of exile chapter six there is no ending. everything is here. (so pitch a tent that you can live in […]
Feb. 2: Day by Day with Father Bill
FEAST OF THE PRESENTATION OF THE LORD ‘Tis the gift by Padraig O’Tuama ‘Tis the gift to be gentle With your self at the end of a day when you’ve given of a day when you’re spent. To re-create, to breathe and to rest and to treat your own self as your own welcome […]
Feb. 1: Day by Day with Father Bill
MONDAY OF THE FOURTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME -from Pope Francis’ editorial in the New York Times, “A Crisis Reveals What Is In Our Hearts,” November 26, 2020 III. God asks us to dare to create something new. We cannot return to the false securities of the political and economic systems we had before the […]