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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In Remembrance of the Faithful Departed But, as it is written, “Eye has not seen or ear heard, nor has it entered into the heart of man, what things God has prepared for those who love him.” –1 Corinthians 2:9– One cold February morning, I received a photograph in
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A Homily for Ascension Thursday [Christ] ascended, not to distance himself from our lowly state but that we, his members, might be confident of following where he, our Head and Founder, has gone before. –Preface I of the Ascension of the Lord– When I was in college, years before
Read moreThe Courtship of Princess Lucilda By Father Bernard J. Ezaki Tell All the Truth Tell all the truth but tell it slant, Success in circuit lies, Too bright for our infirm delight The truth’s superb surprise; As lightning to the children eased With explanation kind, The truth
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For at the resurrection they will neither marry nor be given in marriage, but will be as angels of God in heaven. –Matthew 22:30– What? No marriage in the afterlife? The greatest bond of love a man and woman can know on earth will not survive into the hereafter?
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Amen, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven. –Matthew 18:3– In the summer of 1968, Dad took Mom and us six kids on a three-week visit to Japan, his ancestral homeland. Our family toured as many Shinto
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But he [the bridegroom] answered and said, “Amen I say to you, I do not know you.” –Matthew 25:12– Years ago, my sister Elizabeth and her husband Rick were on their way to their friend Steve’s wedding some miles away from their home. Unfortunately, they got stuck in traffic and
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