T his is my opinion:  I’m a bells guy.  I like bells at the Mass.  I am not among those who think Jesus divinely ordained bells to be rung ...

S o, The dead spent the night at my place last night.  This is not unusual only for a very small group of people I would imagine.  For ...

Chris, a regular reader of Adam's Ale, suggested a reprint of a post that involved Fr. Swirski who is recently late of our company.  Yo...

FINDING TRUTH WHEREVER IT MAY BE FOUND :  " A priest must aim to fulfill the ideal of death, the death of a victim united with Jesus ...

T he Rev. Thaddeus Swiski passed away on Easter Day after receiving the consolation of the sacraments.  Fr. Swirski is the retired pastor o...

T he Holy Week celebrations here at St. Sebastian went well IMHO.  This was probably the least stressful Easter Vigil I have ever celebrate...

I am heading into my Holy Week cave and focusing on the upcoming festivities so there may not be much coming out on A dam's A le this w...

T he Church has produced some of the most beautiful music in the world, not the least of which are Mass settings.  I grew up singing these ...

I f you want to get Fr. Orndorff going (and it really doesn’t take much,) show him a picture of St. Joseph as an elderly man with grizzly b...

FINDING TRUTH WHEREVER IT MAY BE FOUND :  " I lost my seven best friends, which is to say, God has had mercy on me seven times withou...

I n my defense, I have never been a witness to a burglary before.  It is nothing like the movies.  There's no drama, no threatening mus...

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H ere is where the “General Instruction of the Roman Missal” gets its “general.”  Surprisingly, after saying that this is the center and hi...

H ere is something that I love about Scripture.  You can study it, pray it, go to lectures on it over and over and over, and STILL somebody...

B efore you declare, “Nyope,  Not me.  This is ridiculous.” let me make my case.  If, at the end, you still don’t agree with me, you’ll sti...