Homilies

Never Know the Time

Date: 
March 7, 2010
Liturgical Week: 
3rd Sunday of Lent
Podcast: 
4 Minutes Audio: 

When the hurricane Katrina hit the East coast of America 
and almost destroyed New Orleans and the people of that City, 
the homeless and the hungry started to try to rebuild their lives.
There were some people in the US 
who maintained the City of New Orleans was nearly destroyed 
because it was an immoral City; 
they deserved what they got and 
they need to not rebuild that City to its formerMore...

Mountaintops and Valleys

Date: 
March 2, 2010
Liturgical Week: 
2nd Sunday of Lent
Podcast: 
4 Minutes Audio: 

You know life has a certain cycle but it sort of ebbs and flows in ways that are predictable but maybe not in such an easy manner to understand always.  Like even in the middle of a day, there are good times and bad times; there is light and darkness in each day.  And then in our seasons, who does not marvel that when spring time comes and we see those beautiful flowers start to appeaMore...

Get Real–God Loves Us

Date: 
February 21, 2010
Liturgical Week: 
1st Sunday of Lent
Podcast: 

In her classic children’s story, “The Veleveteen Rabbit,
 Margaret Williams tells the story of a stuffed rabbit
and the boy who received it as a Christmas gift.
It is a wonderful story that shares 
our common experiences of our own human life.
At first, the simple toy was snubbed by all the other, 
more expensive and sophisticated mechanical toys.
They flaunted their complexity and regarded theMore...

Logotherapy

Date: 
February 17, 2010
Liturgical Week: 
Ash Wednesday
Podcast: 

Victor Frankel was the protégé of Sigmund Freud 
when he was captured by the Nazis in World War II 
and shipped off to the prison forced labor camp.  
In this camp, people were forced to work in grueling conditions 
with little to no food or water 
and it became quickly a case of survival.  
Victor Frankel was fascinated to see 
that the first to die were actually the strongest 
and nMore...

Words. Words. Words.

Date: 
February 14, 2010
Liturgical Week: 
6th Sunday of Ordinary Time
Podcast: 
4 Minutes Audio: 

In our modern world, we have so many words that come to us; 
we have words that come in volumes of books 
that take up libraries and bookstores; 
newsstands are full of magazines and newspapers 
for every particular type of interest you have ever imagined.
And the words keep flowing.  
We have them in our air waves, 
through the radio stations and through the music they play
and the wordsMore...

A Calling of a Different Sort

Date: 
February 7, 2010
Liturgical Week: 
5th Sunday of Ordinary Time
Podcast: 
4 Minutes Audio: 

Several weeks ago you may have caught 
the headlines in the Sports section of the paper.  
It said, “A calling of a different sort.”  
The article went on to speak of a man who
was the MVP of the Arizona Fall League, 
and had been playing in the baseball Minor Leagues 
with incredible success, getting no less than 30 home runs 
along with some other incredible statistics.
He was beingMore...

It is Nice to Know: I Love You

Date: 
January 31, 2010
Liturgical Week: 
4th Sunday of Ordinary Time
Podcast: 
4 Minutes Audio: 

The world-renowned play “The Fiddler on the Roof” 
is back in San Francisco theatre.
It is a spectacular play if you have never seen it
and well worth your time if you can see it.  
Many years ago, they made a movie out of it.  
There are several powerful themes in that play 
that speak to the human condition 
so poignantly, so strongly.More...

True Civilization

Date: 
January 24, 2010
Liturgical Week: 
3rd Sunday of Ordinary Time
Podcast: 

The world renowned anthropologist Margaret Mead 
was asked the question about her work, 
“What was the first sign of civilization for me?
Was it the axe-head?  
Or was it the arrowhead or was it a fish hook?
Or maybe it was something more sophisticated 
like a musical instrument, or a colored ceramic bowl?  More...

Schadenfreude

Date: 
January 17, 2010
Liturgical Week: 
2nd Sunday of Ordinary Time
Podcast: 

The musical “Avenue Q” is here in San Jose; 
it is a rather interesting musical if you have ever seen it
but it is a rather unorthodox musical.  
While it is about Muppets, it is really not for children, 
I can assure you of that.  
But the story line goes pretty much like this
—the young puppet, Nikki, a person just out of college, 
rents a house on this Avenue Q.
The musical touchesMore...

Divinization Process

Date: 
January 10, 2010
Liturgical Week: 
Feast of the Baptism of the Lord
Podcast: 
Once there were two elderly ladies 
having lunch together in a restaurant 
when one of the ladies became distracted 
by what was happening two tables over;
the people at that table were causing a commotion.  
The other lady asked her, “Well, what’s wrong,” 
not wanting to look over her shoulder.  
She said, “Oh, I’ve seen this so many times.  
I know exactly what is going to happen.More...
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