Feb
09
My friend Chris turned 30 and got depressed. We both worked in radio and while it’s a fine occupation, one can begin to wonder what difference that last show really made in people’s lives. Ask anyone who works with the public and they’ll tell you that people don’t call when you’re doing well and tell …
Dec
21
My wife and I aren’t exactly rolling in dough, but the truth of the matter is that neither one of us married for money. And when economic times are hard, as this past year has been for so many, it allows us to consider how much we really do love one another. So this snip …
Dec
15
The Washington Post tells us that Marriage is becoming a minority status and that more folks are simply choosing to be single. Rose Kreider, a Census Bureau demographer who specializes in household statistics, noted last year that 7.5 million couples were living together without being married, a 13 percent jump in just one year. Many …
Dec
06
So my wife’s side of the family always has a huge honking full-on family Christmas celebration on the second weekend of December. So we travelled down to Long Island this year and had some good food and better conversation with people that we don’t get to see all that often–especially since we made the move …
Oct
31
So on this day when we mask ourselves from others and pretend to be someone else for day, I thought it might be a good moment of reflection for married couples to think more deeply about the one to whom they are most “unmasked.” What am I driving at? Our wives and husbands know us …
Oct
19
Deacon Greg pointed me to this amazing story today of a couple who had been married 72 years and who tragically died from injuries in a car crash. The amazing part is that Gordon and Norma Yeager died in the ICU holding hands. Dennis Yeager said the couple left home last Wednesday to go into …
Oct
04
Happy Feast Day to all my Franciscan friends. We held a rainy blessing of the animals day here on Sunday, so my pictures were awful and Haze, my dog, doesn’t really like other dogs so he wouldn’t really cooperate with us. Regardless, I don’t need an excuse to write about my dog, but St. Francis …
Aug
19
In this age of sports where baseball’s home run record is now seriously debatable, I’ve come to appreciate the efforts of Yankee Roger Maris’ 61 Home Runs in 1961. It was a then record total for a single season but the commissioner of baseball placed an asterisk next to the record because Maris reached the …
Jul
22
Ben Woods, who is my trainer married Chelsea LaMachia, who is one of the cantors at our 8pm student mass. I’ve got things pretty good in Buffalo. An Angelic voice at mass, a trainer who keeps me in shape and most of all good friends that I have come to treasure. Congrats to the happy …
Mike Hayes is an author, commentator, Campus Minister and Spiritual Director. He founded the award winning BustedHalo.com in 2001 and wrote the book Googling God with Paulist Press in 2007. Mike is currently a Campus Minister at The University at Buffalo where he serves on the staff of St Joseph University Church. He is available for speaking engagements, retreats and personal spiritual direction.Social Widgets powered by AB-WebLog.com.
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