Confirmation 2011

The 2011 Confirmation season is officially underway!  We confirmed 28 students this evening from St. Paul Newman Center Parish and St. Lawrence O’Toole in Laramie. I must say, I was very impressed with this group of young people, and I told them in the homily how much the Church needs Read more…

Surrender To God

Today we celebrate the conversion of St. Paul.  His “immediate conversion” story is perhaps one of the best known accounts in all of Christian history.  For that reason, I am “struck” with the thought that no matter how powerfully God intervened in Saul’s life, there was still for him as Read more…

Fidelity; Loyalty

Today is the feast of St. Luke, Evangelist.  There is a marvelous depiction of his loyalty to St. Paul represented in the courtyard of St. Paul Outside the Walls in Rome.  (Picture to the left)  The scene recalls the Scripture passage of 2 Timothy, 4: 11 where St. Paul writes:  Read more…