Gospel, Homily and Coffee

Congratulations to our Elect! Congratulations to our Candidates! Congratulations to our fellow Catholics completing your initiation! Congratulations on the new Way! These past days of the Triduum we have celebrated this Way in a special manner. Thursday, we remembered that we are to remember. We remember so as to make real in our lives all that Christ is, was and will be. We remembered the service of Christ, and how we are called to serve. Friday, we celebrated Christ on the cross. This day was not about the mistakes of humanity, nor how horrible we are, because we are not the center of it all. No, it is, was and ever shall be about the love of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. The Cross stands as the Sign of the love of God. So overwhelming huge, immense, infinite is the Father’s love for us. It cannot be contained, hindered, nor stopped. The Father created us with so much potential for good. The Father’s will is nothing less than that good be made real, be realized in this...

Memories and Remembering...they can change us and the world...if we want. Remember the first Harry Potter movie/book, “The sorcerer’s stone”, and the mirror that showed the deepest of dreams. And the lure of that mirror was the people would get so entrapped by that dream, the fantasy, the memory, and they would forget reality and waste away. Have any of us ever returned to a place that long ago meant something to us? Like going back to our old elementary school and looking at those tiny desks? Or a favorite park, restaurant, someplace where some nice event or memory was formed? And it failed now to live up to that memory? Memory, scientists will tell us, will deceive us. Every time we remember something from the past, it gets altered in our conscious, so that the next time we remember it, it is slightly different. Memory is not true reality, it is really not objective, but subjective. Memory can deceive. The past is essentially gone. Yet, how much we want to believe what we thi...