21 August 2015

Eating with your Feet

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Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time Pope Francis and Bishop Boyea have been speaking a fair amount about being welcoming people and parish...
11 August 2015

Fruit, Not Chocolate, Please

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Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Many people are surprised to hear that I’m not the biggest fan of chocolate.  I’ll eat the occasio...
05 August 2015

The Good Ole Days

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Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Summer is the time of year when many of us take vacation time.  Whether it’s a little trip down to Ce...
06 June 2015

Encountering Jesus

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Corpus Christi If you could meet or have dinner with or talk to any person throughout all of history, who would it be and why?  Think ab...
02 June 2015

Icons of the Trinity

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Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity I invite you to look at the two icons to my right and my left for a second.  The icon to my right ...
26 May 2015

Don't Stay in the Upper Room

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Pentecost In 1217 a man named Domingo did the unthinkable.  It was less than a year earlier that his small group of companions, along...
15 May 2015

"Inconceivable!"

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Sixth Sunday of Easter There are many great movies, but one of the great movies is “The Princess Bride.”  It’s a clean movie, a love ...
05 May 2015

Staying on the Vine

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Fifth Sunday of Easter While I know that we have two families who grows grapes in our parish, I’m not sure that we have many more.  So w...
28 April 2015

A Great Gift from God

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Fourth Sunday of Easter Today the Universal Church, the Diocese of Lansing, and St. Joseph parish receive a great gift: the gift of new ...
21 April 2015

The Puzzle of Salvation

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Third Sunday of Easter When I was in middle school, my best friend at the time, Jeff, had a puzzle for me to figure out.  It was a kind ...