At a certain age, kids love to throw things at each other, get each other really dirty. Say hitting your brother with a big, juicy rotten tomato right out of the garden — it makes a satisfying splat and a wonderful mess.…
« read »Today we celebrate the feast of St. Boniface on what is the 16th anniversary of my ordination to be your bishop. Many of you were not yet even in the seminary in 2008 and most of you were not yet priests. Over…
« read »My grandfather founded a small meat packing business in Fort Worth (Taylor Dressed Beef) and worked at it very hard for many years. He had to make many sacrifices in order to succeed, worked long hours, going in to work very early…
« read »One of our most cherished images from the Bible is that of the shepherd and his sheep, so I am pleased that among the readings that we have for Cody’s ordination to the priesthood is the 23rd Psalm and a portion of…
« read »One of the biggest misconceptions people have about the teaching of Jesus has to do with his commandment of love. You recall when Jesus was asked, “What is the greatest commandment of the law,” and we are told that the answer was…
« read »We live in a culture that has been impoverished by individualism, which is made all the worse by the fact that as a society we value personal autonomy at the expense of the common good. Our national myth is that of the…
« read »Today is the Vocations Day for Central Arkansas Catholic Schools, a day when we gather fifth-grade grade boys and girls and invite you to consider whether the Lord may be calling you boys to serve him as a priest or as a…
« read »Today as we celebrate the feast of St. Joseph, who models for us what a good father must do when faced with challenges — walking by faith, responding to God’s message received in dreams, receiving Mary as his wife, being a faithful…
« read »On Friday afternoon, they took Jesus’ body down from the cross, and I imagine that they probably laid him gently in Mary’s arms. Joseph of Arimathea and John and others did the things that had to be done. Every squeak of the…
« read »Today begins the sacred Triduum, Holy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter Sunday — the days when evil did its worst, but Jesus rose victorious and now offers us a share in his victory. The first of these days has an older name…
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