We are very excited about this weekend. We are welcoming Archbishop William Lori, who will be touring our campus on Sunday morning and then celebrating the 12n Mass. On the day of his installation he pulled me aside to tell me he wanted to visit Nativity as soon as his schedule permitted, and this weekend […]
We have an expression around here when we’re excited about something, when it’s fresh and new and exciting: we say it’s “off the hook.” Well this coming weekend is going to be nothing less than “off the hook.” This is “Kick-Off Weekend” when we kick off our fall programs. We have programs for kids and […]
This morning we had an all-call staff gathering to take a look at the new church year (2012-2013), which starts today. After Mass, we gathered for bagels and coffee and some great sharing all about the amazing time that is just ahead for us. Tom, my associate, gave an overview of what’s ahead for our […]
This weekend brings an end to summer, an end to our final summer message series. We’ve been discussing the Holy Spirit and we called the series “The Other Guy” because the Spirit can sometimes seem like the forgotten member of the Trinity. Bottom line, the Spirit is a person. And you can have a relationship […]
As many of you know, my associate Tom Corcoran and I have been working on a book for the past year, working especially hard these past weeks, with final edits. We have also been in discussion with our editor about a title. It was an interesting process and probably two-dozen titles were actively discussed and […]
This is the third and final segment in my a reflection this past week asking the question, “What is going on?” as in, “What is going on in churchworld?” Things no longer seem to be going well in many, many different slices of church life across the country, and why that is so, or how […]
Currently I am asking the question, “What is going on?” as in, what is going on in churchworld? A sampling of some of what prompts the question. In a certain region of one diocese four very different parishes have suddenly been merged into one. Aside from the grief and pain of losing their own parishes, […]
I was away for most of the weekend for my beautiful cousin Laura’s wedding. Beyond the joy of the event a wedding in my family will provide sermon illustrations for months to come, so it was a wise investment of my time. One of the many great things about this wedding (a truly great wedding […]
Yesterday I came to the obvious and nevertheless astounding fact that fall is just around the corner. Our kick-off weekend is less than a month away (September 8 & 9). Here are a few things I want to get done in the remaining days of summer… 1) Fall Preparations The obvious work of summer for […]
And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit Acts 2.4 We have begun our second series of the summer, taking a look at the Holy Spirit, the overlooked and misunderstood person of the Blessed Trinity. The Spirit is a person, by the way, and we can have a relationship with that person, and we […]
