Flowers In Winter
A week or so ago I got onto a train going from Pennsylvania to Boston, on my way home from visiting my father. There were hardly any seats available as I walked along, but finally I spotted an open...
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Be A Divine Revelation
One of our philosophy professors here at the seminary talks every once in a while about the Israelites. Here were these 12 tribes of nobodies in the middle of the desert that called God “I Am Who Am”....
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Bread And Roses
The city of Lawrence, Massachusetts was founded in the mid-1800′s by some venture businessmen who bought some private land from two neighboring towns on the Merrimack River. They set up a dam on the...
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An Unforgettable Duty
About 12 years or so ago, I got a call for jury duty in downtown Boston. After the usual shrug, I showed up with what seemed like 200 other annoyed people at the courthouse and moved into the waiting...
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Mary Needs Your Littleness
This is a talk I was able to share today at St. Patrick’s in Lawrence, MA, on the visitation of the Pilgrimage Statue of Our Lady of Fatima. It’s always a privilege to share these thoughts, I hope...
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It’s All Part of God’s Plan
When I was in Ecuador, my friend took me to the little rodeo. There’s a square ring with a bamboo fence, and a bunch of people sit on the fence. Then, on the side, attached to the ring, is a big bull...
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If you haven’t seen the movie The Lorax yet, and you want to see a good movie, you’ll want to skip this post. It’s a great movie, but if you read this, it’s guaranteed to ruin the movie for you. So,…....
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God’s Tongue
I am trying to get better at Spanish these days because I’m hoping to go to South America this summer, to Ecuador and maybe Colombia also. Where I’m going, there is no English spoken, so it’s going to...
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Mission Ant Possible
One day this summer while I was in Ecuador, I was entering the church where I was staying and looking at the paint job on the wall. We were doing a lot of painting to get the church ready for the big...
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God’s Homeruns
When I was in graduate school in my early twenties, I spent a few summers working at the parking garages outside Fenway Park. Now, you might think that’s a high profile job for a young person. I mean I...
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