UPON THIS ROCK Word Cereal Polarity is natural but polarization stymies progress and stability. Community and communion are good, but communism is not. Secularity is a reality, but secularism is damaging. The clerical state can be holy, but clericalism is evil....
UPON THIS ROCK Bonds of Brotherhood For the past five years or so, I have met periodically (roughly quarterly) with a group of guys who desire to deepen their spiritual lives. Their nucleus is the Rockhurst High School Class of 1990, though a few others, including a...
since we’re back in the game I’m going to ask us to do something a little different for the Lord’s prayer today 51:34 I’m going to ask you to leave your pews and go to the side walls so that we can 51:40 form an entire circle around the church...
Please Don’t Tell Me Quite often, church officials, when told by parishioners about something that is not in-line with ecclesial norms (even if they agree with it), will say: “Please, don’t tell me…” The issue might center around what they’ve chosen to do with the...
Note this Sunday, July 2, the Mass will not be live-streamed. However the Mass Readings, Prayers of Petition, Fr Garry’s Reflection are available below. Bulletin Prayers of Petition Readings for the 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time Reflection...