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Bearing witness
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…
Prepare the Way
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…
Beauty is Beautiful
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…
Whistleblowers
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…
Listen to the Ancestors
November 1 All Saints homily As you may know, today the church celebrates the feast of All Saints. Now I grew up Catholic, and I think it’s safe to say that when it comes to saints, we Catholics are a strange lot. We have some interesting traditions associated with the saints: For example, when something is lost, we pray to St. Anthony and say some version of: Tony Tony look around. Something’s lost and can’t be found. Or when you…
Wiping Away the Tears
Spiritus Christi Father Jim Callan October 11, 2020 (Isaiah 25:6-10A) In 1997 Bishop Matthew Clark held a mass at the Cathedral to welcome the LBGTQ community. Some of you were there. He wanted to let them know that the church no longer rejects gay and lesbian, LBGTQ community but on the contrary cherishes them. It was one of the peak moments of Bishop Clark’s ministry in Rochester. Thirteen hundred people jammed in the cathedral, standing room only and 200 of…
