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Homily for The Feast of St. Paul the Apostle 2017
FEAST OF ST. PAUL THE APOSTLE 2017 This weekend we Paulist Fathers celebrate our community feast day, the Conversion of St. Paul the Apostle. Our founder, Servant of God, Fr. Isaac Thomas Hecker named our community after St. Paul, to do in North America what Paul did in the Middle East; to preach the Good News of Jesus Christ in new forms to all who will listen. Paul did not want simply for people to “believe” in Jesus Christ, he invited them and us into a new way of life. Paul invites us into a new LIFE-STYLE where it is no longer we who live but Christ who lives in us - giving shape and direction to our lives. What happened to Paul on the road to Damascus some 2,000 years ago? I am going to dare and say that Paul was not converted, from anything into anything. Paul, rather, had a deep, personal, piercing INSIGHT, an aw-ha moment, an inner experience of Jesus Christ; and it changed everything about him - forever. Paul was transformed....
Homily for Third Sunday of Advent 2016
To paraphrase the Gospel, what did you come here to see? Pretty Advent decorations? What did you come here to see? Finally dressed people? What then did you come here to see? A prophet, a homilist who could string words together in a complete sentence? Ah, yes, and more than that. You came to see if love is really possible, to make sense out of nonsense, to feel comforted and a bit more centered by a Word of HOPE. We all need a huge dose of HOPE and we spend a lot of time and do a lot of things to try and find HOPE if not enduring LOVE. At times we say “we placed all our hopes on (you fill in the blank) only to be somewhat or hugely disappointed. Some of you, if you are close to my age, will remember at time when cereal box came with coupon offerings for toy and nick knacks on the back. If the sugary non-nutritional cereal wasn’t enough they would grab us with outrageous offers. I’d send them off and then wait, and w...
New York Times review of a new book on Hitler
This is a very good and very scary read: HITLER, The Assencion By MICHIKO KAKUTANI How did Adolf Hitler — described by one eminent magazine editor in 1930 as a “half-insane rascal,” a “pathetic dunderhead,” a “nowhere fool,” a “big mouth” — rise to power in the land of Goethe and Beethoven? What persuaded millions of ordinary Germans to embrace him and his doctrine of hatred? How did this “most unlikely pretender to high state office” achieve absolute power in a once democratic country and set it on a course of monstrous horror? A host of earlier biographers (most notably Alan Bullock, Joachim Fest and Ian Kershaw) have advanced theories about Hitler’s rise, and the dynamic between the man and his times. Some have focused on the social and political conditions in post-World War I Germany, which Hitler expertly exploited — bitterness over the harsh terms of the Treaty of Versailles and a yearning for a return to German greatness; unemployment and economic distress amid the worldw...