Whine or Shine

A Homily for the Seventh Sunday of Easter (Year B) and for Mother’s Day 13 May 2018 During those days Peter stood up in the midst of the brothers (there was a group of about one hundred and twenty persons in the one place).  He said, “My brothers, the scripture

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Love Does Not Envy

During my twenty-four-year stay in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, I came to know a woman named Anne who, in many ways, was like a second mother to me.  Anne was full of maternal wisdom.  About her own children, she’d say, “You can give birth to ‘m, but you can’t explain ‘m.”  She

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