Milwaukee Bound and Updates in My World
Weather permitting I will be at Cardinal Stritch University in Milwaukee, the land of my wife’s sister and her family. Looking forward to speaking over the next few days and…
Silent Monks Sing Hallelujah
A Hat tip to the lovely Lexy Janda, via Facebook. Hysterical. http://feeds2.feedburner.com/GooglingGod
Remembering Dave
14 years ago, my college classmate and junior year roommate Dave Connors died after battling a long illness. It was tough for us to see someone so young die at…
Getting Something For Nothing: The Just Do It Mentality
Today’s proverb is a doozy: Proverbs 10:2 “Ill-gotten treasures profit nothing, but virtue saves from death.” I’ve been following the Tiger Woods fiasco and it never fails to amaze me…
Proverbial Wisdom Returns
At a recent scripture session we decided to discuss the book of Proverbs. It was actually a challenge to find something to say about the proverbs. But I realized that…
Advent: Waiting in Hope
Which kinda makes me want to do something like this… Even Charlie Brown’s admonition at the close calls me into greater introspection of my own experience of waiting. Am I…
Hope’s Season
The word “Hope” has taken on many different meanings for me this Advent. Throughout the season we wait in hope for a savior and the savior surprises us, not because…
Advent is Here and BustedHalo® wants to know…
What Are You Waiting For? The BustedHalo® Daily Jolt Advent Calendar has arrived and is chock full of great advent quotes surrounding the theme of waiting. The reality for most…
Counting Your Blessings?
I want to scream every time someone uses the terms “we’ve been blessed” or suggests that one “counts their blessings.” Often this leads people into believing that God favors one…
This Advent be the Cross in the Classroom (and elsewhere)
Msgr. J. Patrick Keleher – “Fr. Pat” to those of us at the University of Buffalo had a great line in his homily referring to those of us who are…