Easter Sunday – C • April 21, 2019 at St. Luke’s
If someone asked you why you were Catholic, what would say? How would you answer them? Archbishop George Lucas of Omaha – not to be confused with the director of Star Wars – was asked this question during a talk…
5th Sunday of Lent – C • April 7, 2019 at St. Luke’s
We are already just a couple weeks away from Easter and the week right after is finals week at Grand Valley. Lent will soon be over, and perhaps it was not exactly what we had hoped it would be. Maybe…
4th Sunday of Lent – C • March 31, 2019 at St. Luke’s
The 4th Sunday of Lent is known as Laetare Sunday – a Latin word meaning “rejoice”. It is meant to be a little festive compared to the rest of Lent. The most obvious difference is the color of the priest’s…
3rd Sunday in Lent – C • March 24, 2019 at St. Luke’s
As we continue through Lent, the focus in our readings this week shifts from the covenant God made with Abraham, which we heard about last week, to the covenant with Moses, which we hear about this week. Moses’ life had…
2nd Sunday of Lent – C • March 17, 2019 at St. Luke’s
What is going on in our first reading? It is a strange, almost hallucination-like scene depicting an ancient and mysterious ritual: Abram, not yet renamed Abraham by the Lord, is instructed by him to gather together various animals and then…
1st Sunday in Lent – C • March 10, 2019 at St. Luke’s
It is said that the three temptations Jesus experienced during his forty days in the desert correspond to three common categories of temptation that every human being faces. So, looking at the first temptation: bread, I get that. I like…
8th Sunday in Ordinary Time – C : March 3, 2019 at St. Luke’s
I am sure we have been guilty to one degree or another of having a double standard; I know that I have. A double standard is holding others to certain behaviors, or expecting others to behave in a certain way,…
7th Sunday in Ordinary Time – C • February 24, 2019 at St. Luke’s
One of my favorite books is “The Count of Monte Cristo” – it’s about a man named Edmond Dantes who is framed by three men whom he considered friends; they falsely accused him of being a traitor on the eve…
6th Sunday in Ordinary Time – C • February 17, 2019 at St. Luke’s
I have gotten the impression that not an insignificant number of people are a little tired of winter. The weather has been grim: lots of clouds, snow, rain, bitter cold, freak warm-ups, and so on. So let me remind you…
5th Sunday in Ordinary Time • February 10, 2019 at St. Luke’s
Have you ever felt like you’ve hit rock bottom? Last summer I read a book called The Power of Habit, which begins with the story of a woman named Lisa Allen and her rock bottom moment. It happened in a…