Somebody’s hiding here. Or, truer to tell, someone’s being hidden. E-mail! All those messages flying up and down the wires. All that urgency of communication. And what’s in these person-to-person packages of such life and death import? Jokes, get-rich-quick schemes, and invitations to porn. Isn’t technology wonderful? OK, somewhere in there, there are messages that …
Monthly Archives: May 1999
Monday Week 8 Year I
The time may be ordinary but the liturgy still packs a punch. These are sturdy messages to hear after the heated rush and joyful babble of Pentecost. A bit like having cold water thrown in your face. Repentance. Burning desire. And bitter disappointment. Like I said at the beginning these two turnover times—between semester’s end …
Friday Week 7 of Easter
Just what I don’t want to hear after breakfast on the beach—the taste of fish still strong in my mouth—salt and smoke in my hair. Here we go! “Do you love me?” “Yeah, of course I love you!” “No, I mean it … do you love me?” “Yes! I love you.” There’s something about those …
St Mathias
It seems Christian apostolate is a team sport… and twelve-a-side at that! But thank God we don’t pick teams the same way the Eleven did when they were looking for one more to make up the number. I can feel myself standing there defiantly faking non-embarrassment as one after another gets picked and I get …
Sunday Week 6 of Easter Year A (Mothers’ Day & First Communions)
A friend of mine back in Britain has just been made head of the British Jesuits. I asked him yesterday what he was going to preach about this morning: “loneliness,” he said. …You may remember David since he’s been here to Mass a few times—big guy, blond hair, my age (you know, young). Anyway, it …
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