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This morning  our Father Maximilian at our community mass gave a homily that I found so interesting that I asked him if I might use it as my post for Pentecost. And so it is with gratitude that I present his words hoping that you will find them as moving as I did.

When I was working as an engineer at the Naval facility in White Oak, MD, a young man in h...


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 This week’s post builds on a New Testament verb that I've reflected on before. I’m posting again an old homily with a couple of revisions and insertions, hoping that you might find it useful.

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PHILIP AND THE ETHIOPIANA rather well-known passage from Acts was the first reading for mass recently. The story of Philip’s encounter with the Ethiopian eunuch in Acts 8:26-40. It is Luke the consummate story-teller at his best. There are angels, lots of physical action, and a high-ranking and exotic personage who is open to the movement of the Spirit. Philip is portrayed in th...

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