A Homily for the Seventh Sunday of Easter, Year C I have never had misgivings about my priesthood, but the older I get, the more seriously I take my ordination. For example, when I was a young priest, I recall reading that when the Italian mystic Saint Mary Magdalene de’
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Come, follow me, and I will make you fishers of men. –Matthew 4:19– My friend Conrad uses a boat and sonar to map out the bottoms of lakes. In other words, he charts the topography of lake bottoms, indicating the kinds of plant life, as well as the various
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I thought we all might do well to break out our fishing gear anew. Some fishermen go out to sea with specially crafted nets. They catch an awful lot of fish, which end up in markets. But there are very many fish that nets will never take. Some fish are
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