Off-Key Singing at Mass

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…

I Was Pro Life Before I Was Catholic

Long before I began learning God's plan for our sexuality, I confronted the issue of abortion. Wasn't because of a family crisis or a poor decision I made. I just felt I needed to have a viewpoint. I needed to take a side. I didn't do…

Becoming Who God is Calling Me to Be

I'm not the man God is calling me to be. A little more than 10 years ago, I didn't care who God was calling me to be. I wasn't listening to him. I believed he existed but I knew nothing about him, or His son, or the Holy Spirit. But in…

Internal Conflicts on Easter Sunday

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.…

Ushering Outside my Comfort Zone

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.…

Protect and Serve Each Other

Most of the route I take to work in the morning has a lower speed limit and, I must admit, it takes effort and focus on my part to stay within the #speed limit during the drive. Last fall, in a lapse of concentration, I was driving 40 mph…

Removing the Guilt from Giving

I feel guilty sometimes about consulting Jenny before I make a charitable donation. Well, a little scared too, if I'm honest. For instance, it took the better part of a year before I got up enough courage to make a donation to…

Father Edward’s Homily to Remember

There are homilies and then there are homilies but today I heard a homily to remember. I've been to plenty of masses where once the homily was done I found myself saying, "What was that all about?" I've also been to plenty of masses where…

The One Thing You Need To Do

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…