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Fr. Mark’s Transfer Announcement
Fr. Mark's announcement of his move to St. Joseph's in New London.
Continue reading...Homily: Christmas 2011
What words best describe Christmas? Humble faith? Immense hope? Great joy? Endless Peace? Perhaps, all of these? I would like to add these earth shattering and shocking words: Out of Ordinariness and Poverty comes the Miraculous. These words convey at a very deep level, the meaning of Christmas. Recently, I read the story of an ordinary young [...]
Continue reading...Homily: Forth Sunday of Advent
If God were to invite you to ask him for one gift which you could take along with you on the journey of life, through all the problems, challenges, joys, sorrows and unexpected difficulties you will most certainly encounter if you haven’t already, what would it be? What would you ask for? Well, there is one [...]
Continue reading...Homily: Immaculate Conception
Thomas Merton put it perfectly: “Mary”, he wrote “was as pure as the glass of a very clean window that has no other function than to admit the light of the sun.” And he explained: “If we rejoice in that light, we implicitly praise the cleanness of the window.” I can’t think of a more [...]
Continue reading...Homily: Second Sunday of Advent
Have you ever had the experience of waiting at the train station, bus station or airport terminal? It seemed like an eternity before your train, bus or plane would arrive with delays announced due to weather or some other unknown factors. We ask: “Am I ever going to get out of here.” This [...]
Continue reading...Homily: Thanksgiving Day
When I think of “Turkey Day,” I think of the little boy who saw his mother putting a thermometer in the turkey and said, “If it’s that sick mommy, I don’t want any!” When you think of it, Thanksgiving is the most uniquely American of all our holidays. I know some would argue for the 4th [...]
Continue reading...Homily: Thirty Third Sunday in Ordinary Time
To invest in the stock market today is risky and takes a huge jump in faith to take a large investment, a gift or inheritance or one’s life savings and invest it in stocks. With the roller coaster volatility of the stock market, one certainly is making a serious gamble. This is what happened in [...]
Continue reading...Homily: Thirty Second Sunday in Ordinary Time
A few years ago in the Wall Street Journal, there was a story told about an executive “head-hunter” who goes out and hires corporation executives for large firms. This headhunter once said that when he gets an executive that he’s trying to hire for someone else, he likes to disarm the person. “I offer the [...]
Continue reading...Homily: The Feast of All Souls
A little boy once questioned me about animals and heaven. He asked: “If a bunny dies and goes to heaven and a fox dies and goes to heaven, won’t the fox eat the bunny?” I think that was an innocent and cute question. I relied on the Holy Spirit and said: “ There are no [...]
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