Category: Musings

Mary of Magdala saw the stone was gone and ran to tell the others. They came. They saw. They left.

When trying to get the story concerning who saw Jesus first on resurrection day, one would think the scriptures would be the place to pin this down…

For many years I have had an overwhelming desire to come to the defense of Simon of Cyrene.

Isn’t it interesting how one can hear scriptures over and over through the years and not question little oddities in them?

At the age of seventy-five, with no children and a wife who was called barren, Abe, having been ordered by the Creator to leave his land, relatives, and his father’s house, received his first promises from God…

There was a time when calling someone a “Jonah” meant that they were a jinx, someone who brought misfortune to those around them. Our biblical Jonah certainly did that for the crew of the...

Not having any previous scribblings on the Annunciation, . . . , I present, instead, . . .

Recently, I heard what seemed to be the 1212th homily on loving your enemies.  Not that I have been counting them, so perhaps I should say, more accurately, that I’ve heard more than I...