Homily Archive (Page 19)

Years ago I worked in a restaurant as a server. I remember a manager named Dan who surprised me in many ways because he was not a typical restaurant manager – or at least his management style was very different from most restaurant managers in the food service industry.    There were many nights that the restaurant would get so busy that we had a hard time keeping up. One table would need their order taken.  Another needed more napkins, while…

We were so blessed to have Pastor Rickey Harvey from Mt. Olivet Baptist Church join us this past Sunday to give a homily for MLK Day. Black lives matter too!

Spiritus Christi Father Jim Callan January 3, 2021 Some of you have been to Corpus Christi Church on East Main Street and you have seen the beautiful blue stained glass window in the front. It is the Nativity scene.  Baby Jesus is in the middle flanked by Mary and Joseph, above him the angles – but the striking thing about that window is that in the corners at the bottom are the Magi and the shepherds.  They are equally close…

Father Jim Callan December 20, 2020 You might remember the story of a big oil refinery that caught on fire.  There was a huge conflagration, it was a 20-alarm fire. They called in fire fighters from all the metropolitan area. About thirty minutes in to the fire an old beat-up fire truck arrives from a small town and cruses past the other fire trucks and glides to a stop just yards from the fire.  The fire fighters get out and…

Bearing Witness (Advent 3 – 2020) A man goes into a pet shop to buy a parrot. He asks the owner how much they are.  The shop owner points to three very similar parrots on a perch and says, “The parrot on the left costs $500 dollars.”   “Why does the parrot cost so much?” asks the man. The owner says, “Well the parrot knows how to use a computer.” “What about that one – pointing to the middle parrot?” “That…

If I close my eyes right not I can navigate, probably to the square inch, of some of the spaces I used to spend a lot of time in when I was a child.   One of those places was my grandparents’ home.  I can imagine myself walking up to their game closet, to get the dominos or card games we would play together.  I can virtually walk to the kitchen, and reach over the avocado color sink to get a…

Spiritus Christi Father Jim Callan November 29, 2020 As you know there are two Christmas:  One begins on Black Friday, it’s a mad frenzy of commercialization and shopping and shopping until the holiday of Christmas.  The other began about ten minutes ago when Natalie lit the Advent candle. Actually, Natalie, your name means Christmas.  You are the perfect person to do this, thank you so much.  So Natalie got us going with the first Advent day and this is a…

Spiritus Christi Father Jim Callan November 15, 2020 You might remember the big Enron scandal in 2001.  At the time Enron was one of the largest corporations in the United States.  It was a giant in the field of energy and utilities.  Fortune had named it America’s most innovative company six years in a row.  It had revenues of 100 billion dollars a year and employed 29,000 people. But it was not an ethical company.  It did fraudulent accounting.  Sherron…