Raise your hand if you get annoyed when the people sitting directly behind you are singing so loud at Mass they drown out….well, everything. Right there with ya. If they have good voices it’s not so bad. Used to bother me more than it does now. I guess middle age has mellowed me. Thankfully, from […]
Even though I’d sworn off working another Confirmation Mass, I’d still have to face large crowds at Mass and all the internal conflicts that come with them. The Easter following that fateful Confirmation Mass, our 11:30AM team was up. I’d worked one Easter before, in Wichita, and I arrived that morning expecting chaos and wondering […]
Once we settled into life as parishioners at Church of the Resurrection in Wichita, we wanted to get involved. Jennifer signed up for Children’s Liturgy of the Word and I became an usher. What possessed me to do this? I’m an introvert. I’ve never been comfortable walking up to people and asking them things. Being […]
I was watching #Evan Almighty over Thanksgiving and three messages in that movie were crystal clear to me. The first was one of perseverance in the face of persecution. People thought Evan was a joke, a laughingstock but he stayed the course and built that ark. The second was one of taking the first step […]