Living Monstrance

I often go to the local coffee shop in town here for coffee and a couple of muffins for breakfast.  The other morning I ran into a man named Bill I hadn’t seen in the shop for a while and we got to talking.  He is about 55 or so, and since his stroke last [...]

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“In the world you shall have distress.  But have confidence.  I have overcome the world.”  (Jn 16:33)  The Lord spoke these words to His apostles at the Last Supper, the night that He was betrayed and taken captive, and the day before He was crucified to death.
Now, hold that thought and bear with me as [...]

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Mark McGwire is one of the greatest home run hitters in baseball history. Me, I played two years of Little League and never put on real cleats in my life. So what do Mark McGwire and I have in common? Let me explain.
One summer I worked as a parking attendant in the parking garage behind [...]

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For a time I worked at the parking garage behind the Green Monster at Fenway Park in Boston.  One night I was working collecting fees from cars as they came into the garage, and this brand-new big Mercedes Benz came rolling to a stop next to me and the window dropped down.  Staring at me [...]

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I am absolutely horrible at golf.  It’s not like I haven’t practiced at times in my life.  When I was a kid, I used to practice putting around my backyard.  But I also used to play a lot of baseball.  So, when I have a golf club in my hands, the ol’ baseball swing takes [...]

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When I began my short time with the Franciscans, I started postulancy living on a mountain in Maryland.  The first week, my superior sent me out to do “pick-ups”.  Let me explain what “pick-ups” is.
These Franciscans don’t own any property, nor carry any money - complete renouncement of possessions.  So, in order to eat, they beg [...]

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At my first job as a young engineer, I had the privilege to work with some very smart and talented engineers from MIT at a company in Cambridge, Mass.  I got to work on very advanced technical projects that I couldn’t explain to my family and friends.  It was literally rocket science.
When I got an [...]

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At the hospital in Boston where I volunteered, the Lord sent me to the patients in most dire need of spiritual support.  What a privilege to see the Lord’s Heart first hand with his precious ones!
One day the chaplain sent me with the Lord in the Eucharist to visit a patient Carolyn.  She had cancer, [...]

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