What did you give up for Lent?
When Lent comes up in discussion with non-Catholic friends often the one thing they know about it is that you’re supposed to “give something up.” You might choose to be didactic in your answer...
Author: Stephen Heiner
Bishop Sanborn in Europe: Spring 2016
This is the rescheduling of the Bishop’s original plans to visit Europe in the Christmas period. Many of the original plans are still in place, just adjusted for new dates. Sunday March 27 London...
It is good for us to be here: the Second Sunday of Lent
St. Peter was doing it again: speaking up in a moment of disbelief. Whenever he does so in Scripture we learn much about interacting with the miraculous. When everyone else is scared about the...
Steady as she goes: First Sunday of Lent
It’s after Mass and I’m making breakfast. Even though no one is around and as the sausage begins to fry in the pan, I look behind me guiltily. Yes, it’s called the First Sunday...
Be not as the Hypocrites: leaning into Lent
Morning: Espresso. Croissant. Afternoon: Cafe au lait. Evening: I sat in the pew driving out the thoughts of the day. Trying to get focused and quiet in my mind. My fellow Christians are on...
The Last Sunday after Pentecost
“This would be a great target to hit.” It was Tuesday, and I closed my eyes and pictured an explosion ripping through the Eurostar that was taking me from Paris to London. Done at...
“Right to Life,” a phrase we should abandon
“That’s the language of the revolution,” I said calmly, putting my knife down. “What are you talking about?” my would-be antagonist sputtered. “That, using terms like ‘rights.’ That’s the language of the French Revolution,...
The weekend in Budapest…
As I winged my way home to Paris on Monday I couldn’t help but reflect with amazement at the weekend’s events in Hungary. A congregation which had but a few short months before been...
Forty Days Later: They still didn’t get it
“Domine, si in tempore hoc restitues regnum Israel?” “Lord, wilt Thou at this time restore again the Kingdom to Israel?” Acts I: vi “…apparuit illis Iesus: et exprobravit incredulitatem eorum, et duritiam cordis: quia...
Babel: Punishment then and now
It was 2010. My last living grandparent was having her birthday. I was blessed to be with her in Singapore, my birthplace and a country I had not visited for 20 years, to celebrate...
