Young Fogeys

It has been almost two years since I blogged about anything.  Yes, I'm still alive.  No, I haven't relocated to a secure hideout. When I started this blog back in 2006, social media was still...

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The tie-in in today's readings is sight. Peter and John are walking towards the Temple in our First Reading, when they stop to see the man begging.  Before he heals the man, what does Peter s...

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At the beginning of Lent, on the first Sunday, the Gospel reading told us of the Devil's temptations of Jesus: "Turn stones into bread", "Throw yourself off the parapet", and "Worship me and thes...

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Today's Vatican News Service blog reports about today's historic meeting between Pope Francis and Pope Emeritus Benedict.  In it can be found this blurb: > After a short time of pray...

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The day after St. Joseph's Day, and we jump back into Lent. The readings today revolve around freedom.  We all love the idea of being free.  It is engraved into our American thinking that we ...

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We know we're getting close to the end of Lent because the tones of the Gospel readings have changed.  At the beginning of Lenten season, the readings' themes were things like prayer, mercy, for...

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I thought it would be a quiet Monday. First, let's all take a breath and realize how unprecedented this is.  Yes, I know this has happened before, centuries ago, but nothing like it has happen...

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Pope Benedict dedicated three Wednesday Audience discourses to St. Thomas Aquinas.  The Directory page is HERE .  Look for them on June 2, 16, and 23, 2010. Talk 1 is an overview of his life....

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Today's Gospel reading at Mass tells a story we just heard last week about the encounter between Jesus and the leper that wants to be healed.  Well, okay, it's not the same exactly; today's pas...

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This is my bulletin column for the coming weekend, the Feast of the Lord's Baptism. FROM THE DESK OF FATHER JAY How fast the time goes! We began this Christmas season thinking about Jesus com...

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One of the things I am grateful for is that we live in a time zone 6 hours (sometimes 5) behind Rome.  Pope Benedict's homily for the Feast of the Epiphany gave me the chance, early Sunday morni...

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"Sunday Morning", by Norman Rockwell. Painted in 1959

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If you still needed an additional reason to justify the feeling that this current English translation of the Roman Missal is superior to the one we lived with for decades, it came today at Mass w...

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In my dream last night, I was on the White House staff.  We were on the South Lawn of the White House, and Ronald and Nancy Reagan were visiting.  We all knew President Reagan had Alzheimer's...

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This is part of a 1970 homily which can be found in the book, Christ is Passing By : > If we let Christ reign in our soul, we will not become > authoritarian. Rather we will s...

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This comes from a 1979 work of Cardinal Ratzinger's called "To Seek the Face of God", and is found in English in the Ignatius Press book, "Co-Workers of the Truth ": > The Feast of Christ�...

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Check this out: Catholics and New Media: New opportunities to evangelize the digital continent

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Today's Gospel has the Pharisees asking Jesus when the Kingdom of God is going to happen.  "The coming of the Kingdom of God", said Jesus, "cannot be observed." One of the things we overlook ...

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This snippet comes from Pope Benedict's 2010 Wednesday Audience talk on St. Albert the Great, whose feast day we celebrate today: > During his stay in Padua he attended the Church of ...

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I snapped this picture in our parking lot last Tuesday evening, before the Nor'Easter came and put snow everywhere.  One of the good things that came from being "electrically challenged" was...

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Let me tell you a little story that comes from a great book called The Annotated Godfather: The Complete Screenplay , written by Jenny Jones.  This comes from her introduction to the book. >�...

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I've never liked thunder and lightning.  Rain?  Love it.  Nothing can lull me to sleep faster than the sound of raindrops hitting the window.  Back in my camping days, there was nothing coole...

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This is it.  This is the statue of Our Lady of Sorrows which is in St. Lucy's Church in Newark, NJ.  This was the statue (about 6 feet tall) that  gave me my love for today's feast day. If...

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Metuchen is a odd diocese (for a number of reasons, but that's another article) in that we've had two priests who have undergone heart transplants.  The story of one of them, Fr. Edmund Luciano,...

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