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Deacon Mike's Blog: December 2003

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Friday, December 19, 2003. December 19, 2003. An angel of the Lord appeared to the woman and said to her,. Though you are barren and have had no children,. Yet you will conceive and bear a son. The angel said to him, Do not be afraid, Zechariah,. Because your prayer has been heard. Your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son,. And you shall name him John. Then there was Noah. Remember Bill Cosby’s routine about Noah and the ark. This is God, Noah. Build me an ark. Right What’s an ark? The two readings today ...

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Deacon Mike's Blog: June 2004

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Tuesday, June 22, 2004. June 22, 2004. June 28, 2004. Does today’s Gospel sound familiar? It should. Today Matthew tells us the same story that we heard yesterday from Luke’s Gospel. If you were here this weekend, you heard Mike Coppage give an excellent homily on this event. I guess that means that we’re going to hear the same thing today as we heard yesterday. No, you’re not. It’s very interesting that Mike and I each got something completely different from exactly the same story. But, that’s a topic f...

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Deacon Mike's Blog: February 2004

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Wednesday, February 25, 2004. February 25, 2004. To put it into today’s terms, what would you think if someone told you to take up your electric chair and follow them; or your lethal injection machine? It wouldn’t make much sense. There’s an old joke that if Christ had lived in the 20th century, we’d all be wearing little electric chairs around our necks. Why does God give one person something like this big cross to carry around? On the other hand, we’ve all heard stories about someone who had money, pow...

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Deacon Mike's Blog: April 2004

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Friday, April 16, 2004. Feast of St. Bernadette April 16, 2004. There was a child named Bernadette,. I hard the story long ago. She saw the Queen of Heaven once,. And kept the vision in her soul. No one believed what she had seen. No one believed what she had heard. That there were sorrows to be healed. And mercy, mercy in the world. We’ve been around, we fall, we fly. We mostly fall. We mostly run. And every now and then we try. To mend the damage that we’ve done. Tonight, tonight I cannot rest. To make...

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Deacon Mike's Blog: October 2003

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Friday, October 31, 2003. October 31, 2003 Halloween. Well, it’s Halloween. The day we send our kids out to beg for candy. But, to keep them from embarrassing us, we make them wear masks so nobody knows they’re our kids. One day, he tricked the devil into climbing a tree. Once he was up there, Jack trapped him by putting a cross under the tree. Before he would let Satan come down, Jack made him promise not to take his soul. So, Jack was doomed to wander between heaven and hell forever. To light his w...

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Deacon Mike's Blog: September 2003

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Tuesday, September 30, 2003. The Ten Commandments in the Courthouse? Time really flies. In last Friday’s Gospel, John the Baptist was jumping for joy in Elizabeth’s womb at the presence of the Lord in Mary’s womb. Today we read about John’s death. John literally lost his head in defense of his beliefs. John the Baptist was just one of many thousands of Christians who have given their lives for their faith. And, it still goes on today. There were more Christian martyrs in the 20. That God created everythi...

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Deacon Mike's Blog: January 2004

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Wednesday, January 21, 2004. January 21, 2004 Memorial of St. Agnes. Isn't it funny how we picture things, sometimes? Then David stood over him;. With the Philistine's own sword, which he drew from its sheath,. He dispatched him and cut off his head. Today is the Memorial of St. Agatha, also not a funny story. You may wonder, Deacon, we know you went to classes for a long time, exactly what did you learn? I think the message we can take from today's readings, is that whatever God asks of us, it‘s never t...

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Deacon Mike's Blog: March 2004

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Monday, March 22, 2004. March 22, 2004 Monday of the 4th Week of Lent. When the gentile woman asked Him to heal her daughter, his response was that He had been sent to the lost sheep of Israel. It was not right to take food from the children and give it to the dogs. Remember her response? Even dogs get the scraps that fall from the table? Jesus took pity on her and healed her daughter. So, what’s the message here? That Jesus couldn’t make up his mind? Jesus is the only person who ever lived who you could...

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Deacon Mike's Blog: May 2004

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Wednesday, May 05, 2004. May 5, 2004 Arch. Dio. Development Appeal. There’s a story about an elderly man who was very sick. In fact, he was near death. He was also very wealthy and very stingy. In fact, he had never done anything for anyone in his entire life. Knowing that the end was near, he decided he’d better do something before it was too late. He called his man servant to his bedside, gave him ten cents and told him to go out on the street and give it to the first poor person he saw. So, I’m thinki...