The emperor in a faraway land had a magnificent vase that was his pride and joy. But one day someone accidently knocked over the vase. It fell to the floor and shattered into a thousand pieces.   The fragments of the vase were gathered up and the best potters in the...

We’re in our third year of the diocesan local synod conducted under the leadership of Archbishop Hebda. Not to be confused with that is the Global Synod started at the initiative of Pope Francis and now is being implemented under the leadership of Pope Leo. Today I’d...

In the last few months within a short span of time, on three different occasions we saw innocent people savagely murdered. First at the beginning of the summer there was the murder of Minnesota speaker of the house Melisa Hortman and her husband Mark and their dog...

I heard Fr. Bill Murtough who took the masses las weekend said that he was my twin brother. He may be my evil twin but he’s not my twin brother. Good to be back to celebrate with you Sunset Fest. As we say, the only Sunset Fest in all of Carver County, quite possible...

I had just arrived in the parish at Our Lady of the Lake in Mound, Mn. I was ordained two weeks earlier and this was my first assignment as a priest. My second day on the job my pastor Fr. Dudley says “Get on old clothes and your workboots. You’ll be needing them.”...

The dogma of the Trinity is the central mystery of our faith, and it is inscrutable to reason alone without Divine Revelation.  That is why it is only in the light of the Holy Spirit received at Pentecost that we can even begin to grasp how Three Persons can be One...

Life is interesting. Did you hear that Pope Leo has a personal trainer? Apparently, his trainer didn’t even know he was a cardinal. So, when he was made pope, I can just hear the trainer, “Hey, I know that guy!” Life is interesting for us too. There are sweet moments....

Happy Anniversary!  Two weeks ago St. Victoria celebrated the 20th Anniversary of our New Church.  But this week the worldwide Church celebrates a rather longer anniversary: the 17th-Centennial anniversary of the Council of Nicaea in 325 AD.  Okay, okay ... some of...

In today’s Gospel passage from John 15 Jesus tells us, “As I have loved you so also should you love one another.” It sounds good but how do we put that into practice? I offer one way that can help us do that. It has to do with something we’ve done most every Thursday...

Today on Good Shepherd Sunday we hear how sheep are gathered into the sheepfold and their shepherd knows them and they know their shepherd. And the shepherd is Jesus. That’s what a parish is, a faith community that follows Jesus as the Good Shepherd Here at St....