This is an approximation of the homily I delivered at the 9:00 AM Mass at St Luke the Evangelist Church in Slidell. The readings are for the 23rd week of ordinary time and can be found here.

Wise sayings are brief, catchy phrases that help remind us about some important behavior or principle of life. For example:

During WWII there was a strong concern that sailors on leave might accidentally reveal information to the enemy that could harm the allied cause. The phrase “loose lips sink ships” or “loose lips might sink ships” was coined as something easy to remember to remind military personnel to guard their words at all times.

And then there is my favorite :“Life is like a box of chocolates.

This is an approximation of the  homily I delivered for the 20th Sunday in Ordinary Time, August 14, 2011 at St Luke the Evangelist in Slidell .  Here is a link to the readings.   http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings/081411.cfm  

Have you ever felt like you did not belong somewhere or were being excluded? One time I recall feeling this way was many years ago while working on a project in Salt Lake City.

Homily, Fourteenth Sunday of Ordinary TIme

It became the first and only song to be #1 on both the R&B and Billboard Hot 100 charts.  Numerous cover versions have been recorded, including one by the cast of the TV Show Glee. It is one of only 9 songs to hit No. 1 with versions recorded by two different artists. Mary J. Blige covered the song and sang it at the last presidential inauguration.

Click this link for a great explanation of the Catholic position on IVF. with Father Tad Pacholczyk, Ph.D, a brilliant Catholic bio-ethicist.  This show is nearly a half-hour, so make sure you allocate enough time to fully watch and understand.

This is an approximation of my homily for Saturday May 28, 2011 delivered at the morning Communion Service at St Luke the Evangelist Catholic Church in Slidell, LA . This is the Saturday of the 5th Week of Easter. The readings are Acts 16:1-10, 100:1b-2, 3, 5  and  Jn 15:18-21

See the pyramids along the Nile, watch the sunrise from a tropic isle.

Just remember darling all the while, you belong to me.

See the market place in old Algiers. Send me photographs and souvenirs.

David Scotton, A junior at Jesuit High  in New Orleans, recently won second place for his speech in the Louisiana State Pro Life Oratory contest. The picture, originally from the Jesuit website ,  is of  Scotton addressing the student body after a recent Community Mass.

Scotton urged his fellow Blue Jays to get involved in the Pro Life movement and to speak out

against “the holocaust of our times.”  Rather than risking misquoting this young man, I urge you to listen to the talk yourself here.

The Nuremberg Trials were a series of  tribunals, held by the main victorious Allied forces of World War II, most notable for the prosecution of prominent members of the political, military, and economic leadership of the defeated Nazi Germany. The trials were held in the city of Nuremberg, Germany, hence the name. The judges were Soviet, American, British and French.

Allied leaders were not in agreement of how the to handle the criminals.

This is an approximation of  the homily I delivered at the 4:00 PM Vigil Mass for the 2nd Sunday in Easter, April 30,2011 also known as Divine Mercy Sunday.  

You may have heard the phrase, no pain, no gain.  Of course, it means that if you do not exercise hard, so hard that it really hurts, that you will not realize any gains. Right?  You see it on posters, in commercials and hear it gyms.  Of course it is true.  Except, that it is the biggest exercise myth of all time.

Osama bin Laden is dead.  Killed in a gun battle by Navy special forces and CIA paramilitary. Shot through the left eye they say. Mission accomplished?  Certainly if the mission was the death of bin Laden,  then yes, the mission is accomplished. Outside of that, success is not so certain.

Is the world a safer place?  Probably not.  Is the United States a safer place?  Most certainly not. At least in the near-term, our own government admits that there are some new dangers.  The U.S.
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