Fri, 23 February 2018
I told numerous people to find here a recording of my February 22 presentation in the "Lenten Speakers Series" of my parishes. It was on Abraham's resolve to offer up his son Isaac as a burnt offering/ sacrifice. I turned on my recording device but apparently did not then press "Record." I will try, in the next few days, to record an equivalent of my talk; it will not, however, include the numerous occasions of riotous laughter. |
Thu, 22 February 2018
On February 4, I apparently did not turn off the recorder, so that homily was part of a several-hours-long file. Sorry. February 11, I did not preach. This homily was preached at a retreat for 7th- and 8th-graders, just after the mass shooting at Parkland, Florida. If we are to understand human behavior and, especially, the ways in which we succumb to temptation, we cannot demonize even the most egregious sinners; we must understand ourselves as being on a continuum which includes those who do unspeakable things. |
Thu, 22 February 2018
Can gift cards heal? We need to consider all the various ways in which people need to be healed, and we will grasp this possibility. |