by pdavid@stvictoria.org | Apr 28, 2024 | Homily Blog
Fr. Bob White - What the walk of faith asks us. The “walk through life” that we’re all on whether we know it or not we’re all on that walk. But do we want to make the “walk through life” a walk of faith? That’s up to us. So, what does the walk of faith ask of us? My...
by pdavid@stvictoria.org | Apr 28, 2024 | Homily Blog
Fr. Bob White - Trust Life It seems every time the Risen Jesus appears to the disciples his greeting is always the same, “Peace be with you.” But this peace that Jesus offers, how do we claim it for our own lives? A 97 year-old Benediction monk by the name of Brother...
by pdavid@stvictoria.org | Apr 7, 2024 | Homily Blog
Fr. Bob White I was over at my brother’s last Sunday for Easter. My nephew Bobby whom I baptized is now a strapping teenager. In the last year or so he’s put on fifteen pounds of muscle. My fear was that he was going to challenge me to an arm -wrestling match....
by pdavid@stvictoria.org | Apr 6, 2024 | Homily Blog
Fr. Bob White It was Easter Sunday 1954. It’s Bob and June White and their four kids, my sister Liz 8, my brother Jim 5, my sister Jean 1 and me, 6. Mass at St. Olav has just let out and we’re walking down the sidewalk in downtown Minneapolis. A reporter from the...
by pdavid@stvictoria.org | Mar 17, 2024 | Homily Blog
Father Bob White Back in the 150Os a man by the name of Ignatius (he’d later become a saint) had a dream. He wanted to start a religious order that would revitalize a church that had grown quite complacent in its zeal for the Gospel. Just when it looked like his dream...
by pdavid@stvictoria.org | Mar 17, 2024 | Homily Blog
Father Bob White It was the summer of 1936, the hottest summer on record. Eighteen- year -old Bob White Sr., my dad had hitchhiked to Missouri for the summer to take a job pounding spikes for the railroad. The great migration of “Okies” from Oklahoma to the promised...
