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These reflections are a result of more than 40 years of ministry as a Roman Catholic priest. Most of these years I spent in the Diocese of Charlotte which covers Western North Carolina. Now I am retired, and live in Medellín, Colombia where I continue to serve as a priest in the Archdiocese of Medellín.

Tuesday, 03 March 2020 20:20

WEDNESDAY, WEEK I of LENT

Even now, says the LORD, return to me with your whole heart for I am gracious and merciful. (Jl 2:12-13) “Even now” means there’s still…
Monday, 02 March 2020 22:36

TUESDAY, WEEK I OF LENT

Jesus said to his disciples: “This is how you are to pray: Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will…
Monday, 02 March 2020 08:55

MONDAY OF WEEK I OF LENT

‘What you did not do for one of these least ones, you did not do for me.’ (Mt 25:45) The problem of "doing things for…
Sunday, 01 March 2020 08:36

I SUNDAY OF LENT

“. . . through the obedience of the one, the many will be made righteous.” (Rom 5:19) Long before there was an Ash Wednesday, Lent…
Saturday, 29 February 2020 08:50

ASH SATURDAY

Jesus saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at the customs post. He said to him, “Follow me.” And leaving everything behind, he got up…
Friday, 28 February 2020 08:24

ASH FRIDAY

This, rather, is the fasting that I wish: releasing those bound unjustly, untying the thongs of the yoke; Setting free the oppressed, breaking every yoke;…
Thursday, 27 February 2020 09:28

ASH THURSDAY

If anyone wishes to come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.  (Lk 9:23)   A good…
Tuesday, 25 February 2020 22:16

ASH WEDNESDAY 2020

God is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, rich in kindness. Lent is not about what we will give up . . . rather Lent…
Tuesday, 25 February 2020 11:49

HAPPY MARDI GRAS!

Today is Mardi Gras Day or Fat Tuesday as it was called.  Those of us from Mobile, Alabama, know about Mardi Gras.  We grew up…
Saturday, 01 February 2020 21:09

CANDLEMAS

February 2, 2020 Fifty years ago today on February 2, 1970, I was received into the Catholic Church at the Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate…
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