We have some seminarians living at St. Sebastian this summer.  One of them has rarely been south of 303 and so we have been introducing him...

S o yesterday I wrote to you that I was going to be away from the parish most of the day with two of the seminarians who are staying at and...

FINDING TRUTH WHEREVER IT MAY BE FOUND :  "[ I ]n today's economy beauty is the great equalizer, a backstage pass."  from Hoa...

M odern technology, I begrudgingly admit, is wonderful.  I suppose now I have become so technified that if someone were to take it all away...

GIRM paragraph 84 I ’ve always been fascinated by this prayer of the Mass.  It is said quietly by the priest just before he is to recei...

I f someone asks the question, “Where you at ‘the parade’” and you live in northeast Ohio, you know exactly about which parade is being spo...

FINDING TRUTH WHEREVER IT MAY BE FOUND :  Here are a couple of quotes involving basketball since that seems to be all anybody is interested...

I am of that unfortunate class of people born after 1964 - the post baby boom group. And I don't mean that I'm just coming to th...

W hen I was in junior high school (back when it was thought the concept was thought superior to middle school) one of the prizes handed out...

W ho do you call father? For many people it is not that easy of a question.  Simply donating part of himself in order for you to be cre...

Y ears ago I was subbing at a parish that was in need of a priest to say a Sunday Mass.  I was singing the introduction to the Our Father a...

FINDING TRUTH WHEREVER IT MAY BE FOUND : The above courtesy of Fr. G. David. S o as it turns out there are TWO baby birds in my flo...

S o I know that I am overreacting.  But it is like I can't help it (though I know perfectly well that I can so maybe I choose not to.) ...

H ere’s irony for you: You know what one of the biggest causes of division in liturgy?  The Sign of Peace. Everybody has an opinion...