Fr. Bill | March 30, 2011
Well, I’m off to Mexico in the morning. Visiting Our Lady of Guadalupe, and then heading down to Cancun in order to spend some time among the Mayan pyramid ruins. I’ll have some adventures to inspire the posts to come. Stay tuned! –I’ll be back in a week.
Fr. Bill | March 29, 2011
The other morning, I was with friends in a diner having breakfast. The server was a kid around 20 or so. He had the ‘look’ that is so popular today among many young men: baggy pants deliberately wrinkled and worn so low that his boxer shorted buttocks were in view. His hair was bed-head, [...]
Fr. Bill | March 29, 2011
It’s strange how most all the people that Jesus healed and cured and gave life back to, either were nowhere to be found when His trial was being played out, or WERE there but looked on with the incredulous and the hecklers, often with thoughts in their minds, or words in their mouth, of “I [...]
Fr. Bill | March 24, 2011
Do I really “need” a new iphone? Hmmm. I’ve had an iphone for just about two years now, and I realize that I’m up for an upgrade if I want it. A few people close to me have the new iphone 4, with the 32 GB all set up. It is an amazing little toy, [...]
Fr. Bill | March 22, 2011
Do you have it in you to keep loving without batting an eye, even when your love is not returned? When someone who loved you once perhaps loves you no longer, or not the same as in the past? Practicing the virtues is hard work, and it takes a lot of will and desire. You [...]
Fr. Bill | March 20, 2011
Sometimes you find doing something your conscience convicts you of as being really important feels too much like it’s beyond your ability and strength. This happens all the time; I know it’s true in my life, why wouldn’t it be true in yours? The thing we need to do is remember that the effort is [...]
Fr. Bill | March 19, 2011
“We are not good because we have memorized certain virtues that we never apply.” –Manly P. Hall Religious doctrine and principle is not a thing for the head; it’s meant for action. It’s meant to be carried out, lived out. Otherwise, it’s not authentic; it’s something that exists only in the realm of ideas and [...]
Fr. Bill | March 16, 2011
Sure, I absolutely do think it’s worth contemplating, why there is no looting in Japan right now.
Fr. Bill | March 16, 2011
It’s simply fun to have a lot of passion in life. I say you need to be that way. You want to be that way. You have to really be “into” living this life. When life slows down and you try to even it out ‘too’ much, it becomes still, and too still means stagnant [...]
Fr. Bill | March 15, 2011
I see a lot of goodness being poured out of of a lot of people’s hearts and minds regarding the situation in Japan. The will to survive, and help others survive, is abundant. I just think it’s sad that this is something that only happens when there’s a disaster. You wonder: shouldn’t this heroic generosity [...]
