MAKING AN ASSUMPTION Of course, I assume (!!!) everyone knows that Tuesday, 15 August, is the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Mother. It is a Holy Day of Obligation, and there will be Mass on Monday evening (the Vigil) at 7:00 pm, along with 8:30 am and...

ALLE MENSCHEN WERDEN BRUDER (UND SCHWESTERN)…. Our pilgrims have returned. Our sister-parish has been visited, and the pilgrims have been blessed by the visit (and we, too, through them). We will celebrate our encounter later in August, and they will share their...

A DIFFERENT ST PETER This Sunday, if it were not a Sunday, would have been the Optional Memorial of St Peter Chrysologus. And you all are thinking, “Who??” His story is worth telling. He was the bishop of Ravenna in the middle of the 5th century—a time when...

SIC TRANSIT GLORIA MUNDI When I head to Destin from Chicago (as I did this past week), I find that stopping in Greenville is a good thing to do, and it’s only a short shot down I-65 to Georgiana and the quick route. This way involves driving down AL 55, which might...

DO YOU HEAR THE PEOPLE SING…? In a pivotal scene from Les Miserables, Javert reflects on his life’s pursuit of the “evildoer” Jean Valjean. After being caught as a spy at the barricade, Javert is treated mercifully by Valjean—he allows him to leave alive. He cannot...