My Preaching

Just a few thoughts from Edinburgh, because it asks more questions than it answers. The city is absolutely beautiful, at least the inner city. On the top left is a typical street winding down the hill from the back side of the castle, old stone townhouses with businesses on the first floor, grey and solid, but still beautiful and graceful somehow.

Rome, the Eternal City. Indeed it is, eternal and enduringly beautiful. It is incredibly old, yet still alive and vibrant.

I had an opportunity to visit St. Peter's Basilica in Rome this morning.

My sister and her family.

Heading west until I came to the canyon,
I remember I didn't get here
A year ago. I was going to meet Kathleen here,
once more at this place before
she died.

Now in this place of timeless spirits
We were again together.

Having been called here,
I stayed long enough to reverence this place
and these memories
and this call
and this life..

This morning started in Denver at our novitiate. It is the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord, from The Gospel of Luke 2:22-40.

One of the reasons for driving out West is so that I could stop and see my sister Kathy and her family in Fort Collins, Colorado.

I started out from the Ashram in Kenosha, Wisconsin, on the shore of Lake Michigan.

The sunset Christmas day.

Sacred Heart Church, Wadsworth, Ohio

No feast would be complete without a feast, and we had one! After mass all of the Dominicans and Franciscans were invited to the back cloister for a banquet.

The mass began with a long procession up the center aisle.