A bout ten minutes ago I finished up celebrating a funeral. I will admit when I go to bed at night it is with a certain amount of satisfact...

FINDING TRUTH WHEREVER IT MAY BE FOUND : “ S omewhere a man wastes away his life, covered with coal dust, in the stifling depths of a mine;...

T his past weekend we had our inaugural “All Class School Reunion” at St. Sebastian. There was a nice turn out of people from classes exten...

R ecently somebody donated a box of religious items to the parish. Most of it was things used at Mass. One thing in the box, however, was ...

  Y esterday I was driving through some old stomping grounds that I had not seen in a few years and there was a new mega-church building. I...

T his incident happened not too long ago: After Mass an extraordinary minister of Holy Communion came up to me and said, “There was a you...

FINDING TRUTH WHEREVER IT MAY BE FOUND : “ I f you try to be a plumb and you’re a banana, all you’ll be is a second rate banana.” Fr. Wieg...

T his post may come under the category of "perhaps you're revealing too much" but - oh well. I can't cry.  Well, that is...

H ere is a little bit of an unusual Friday Potpourri. There is a job position open at St. Sebastian Parish. Let people know about it! T ...

Y our neighborhood parish is not a church. It is a parish. The building is a “church building” but the institution is a parish. We belon...

Y esterday we read at Mass that it was easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom...

FINDING TRUTH WHEREVER IT MAY BE FOUND : “ T he more committed a family becomes to a given project, the more vulnerable it also becomes. H...

F r. P. has a Magic Phone.  It does everything.  The other day we got lost (well, I got us lost along with our visiting seminarian Joseph) a...

L et us suppose you had never been to a Mass before – in fact you had only ever heard that such a thing existed somewhere – where would you...

I am so fortunate. I get to be pastor of a great parish with fantastic people, beautiful buildings, and wonderful liturgies. Our music i...