SERMON ON JOHN 15:9-17

One of my favorite saints is St. Catherine of Siena. She was a no-nonsense, “tell it like it is” woman. If she believed you were doing something wrong, she badgered you till you got it right. The year 1309 was a dark period in the Roman Catholic Church. Pope Clement V...

FIRST COMMUNION SERMON

Before my First Communion in 1957, I asked my parents if I could do something that surprised them. I wanted Mom and Dad to walk me to the Communion Rail, which was expected. But then I asked the unexpected. “Can I have Uncle Joe walk us, too?” Uncle Joe was my dad’s...