Archive for August, 2008
Murphy’s Law
Each and every time I am meeting with a parish group and we are working on a project, I always feel obliged to remind them of Murphy’s Law. The classic theorems of Murhy’s Law are these.
1. Everything is harder than it first appears
2. Everything takes longer than it was originally planned,
3. And If anything can [...]
Last night
Speaking of education, our education really never stops, this was shown in a wonderful way last night when we had the last of our parishes Theology Under the Stars series, (although we never saw any stars) I would like to thank Maureen Brennan, Jean Hess, the adult ed committee for organizing this wonderful event, Also I would [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Back to School
Students from pre-school to doctorate candidates are starting to pack up and go back to school. We don’t realize but it really is something many share, that we were once, or still are students. So to commemorate this day I would like to share with you an e-mail that I received a long time ago. [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Local history
I love to study local history.Every where I am assigned I like to see what happened in the area. One day in doing some research at the archives of the Chicago Diocese I discovered that all of the parishes that were once in the Chicago Diocese but now are in the diocese of Joliet the [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )The Dark Knight( or is that night)
More on movies
I saw the Dark Knight this past week. It led me to think about our fascination with light and darkness. We can play a game, how many books movies or anything that talk about light and darkness. The old movie westerns, you can always tell that the hero, Errol Flynn or Gary Cooper, [...]
St. John Vianney
I would be really a shame if I did not write in my blog about the patronal feast day of all parish priests, St. John Vianney. A general biography is written in www.catholic online. I quote,
“St. John Vianney, Universally known as the “Cure of Ars,” St. John Vianney was ordained in 1815. Three years [...]
August 4th St. John Vianney
I would be really a shame if I did not write in my blog about the patronal feast day of all parish priests, St. John Vianney. A general biography is written in www.catholic online. I quote,
“St. John Vianney, Universally known as the “Cure of Ars,” St. John Vianney was ordained in 1815. Three years [...]
