I share a true story with you. I know a priest -maybe a Capuchin- who for Sunday lunch, was heating-up a closed tin of baked beans in a pot of boiling water. He fell asleep. He came back much later to see the pot on the stove all screwed up by the high heat. He […]
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Continue ReadingSaturday of the Second Week of Easter – Fr Kees Thönissen Allow me to share a humorous story. It’s very slightly irreverent, but I can’t resist telling it. It feels like yesterday when a priest, a deacon, and I were sitting by the Lake of Galilee on a pilgrimage, eating local fish and having a […]
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What makes for a practicing Christian? Why do so few people go to church today? Some people say that churches are emptying because they are too progressive, too sold-out to the culture, too devoid of old, timeless truth. Some suggest exactly the opposite, namely, that churches are emptying because they are too slow to change, […]
In Lectionary Cycle C, Sunday Gospels are usually taken from the Gospel of Luke. Gospels for the Easter Season, however, are taken from the Gospel of John. Today’s is one of the post-Resurrection appearances reported by John. In it, Jesus appears first to Mary of Magdala, second to all of the disciples except Thomas, and […]