Easter and Christmas are the two largest Christian holidays. Everyone can get behind Christmas, because it is just a birthday. Easter forces the Christian issue a lot more. Either Jesus didn’t rise from the dead and all our faith is in vain, and Jesus is evil, or Jesus did rise from the dead and it changes EVERYTHING! 4/21/19

The Easter Vigil focuses on the paschal candle of Easter. What does that represent for our Christian life? 4/20/19

We often don’t understand how God deals with sin. We think that he gets as flustered as we do. In the Woman caught in adultery we see how God deals with our miserable sin. He meets it with mercy. “Neither do I condemn you. Go and sin no more”. 4/10/19.

It is and innate desire for humans to choose priests and to offer sacrifice to God. The Old Testament prepares the world for Jesus perfect fulfillment of all desire and prophesy in his perfect act as priest and sacrifice. May we participate in his priesthood and sacrifice of will in love. 4/19/19

Tonight is the institution of the Eucharist and the priesthood. Jesus also gives us a model of how to live out our life. 4/18/19

Today is Palm Sunday and we oscillate between proclaiming Christ as King and also shouting Crucify him. We are humans that do not fully understand who Jesus is. 4/14/19

God Says “Remember not the events of the past”, but “see, I am doing something new!” He wants to work in new ways in history, in the Church. He also wants to work in new ways in your life. Are you open to those new ways? The Gospel today show us the beautiful newness of the mercy of God. We experience that a new in the Sacrament of Reconciliation. Confession allows us in our misery to meet mercy itself and me changed forever just as the woman caught in adultery was changed forever. 4/7/19

Story of the prodigal son is more than just about that one son. 3/31/19

Given at a men’s retreat at Crosswoods for the Diocese of Superior. We open ask the question “Why do bad things happen to good people?”, but realizing that we might not always be good and yet we still receive good things from good is a grateful thing to think about. He died for us not because we were saints and good, but while we were yet sinners and enemies of God, Jesus Christ died for us. 3/24/19

You can read more about the Scandal of Particularity in this article https://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2013/04/friendship-and-the-scandal-of-particularity

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