Am 7: 12-15;   Eph 1: 3-14;   Mk 6: 7-13
One of my favorite movies is a survival film made in the year 2000 titled, Castaway, starring Tom Hanks. In this movie, the FedEx airplane Tom travels on crashes into the South Pacific Ocean during a thunder storm and Tom finds himself on a small, uninhabited island [...]

168 Dt 8: 2-3, 14b-16a; 1 Cor 10: 16-17; Jn 6:51-58
When I was a child, and even as a young adulthood, my favorite breakfast meal was pancakes. I loved to see butter melt on top of pancakes hot off the grill and then watch my mother pour warmed-up Vermont maple syrup over a stack of [...]

Deut 4: 32-34; Rom 8: 14-17; Mt5 28: 16-20
At a confirmation ceremony, a bishop asked one of the high school students to give a definition of the Trinity. A girl, who was somewhat soft spoken, said, “The Holy Trinity is three divine persons in one God.” Slightly hard of hearing, the bishop said, “I’m sorry, [...]