By Deacon John De Gano
“Teach us to pray…” asked the disciples of Jesus after noticing that John the Baptizer had taught his followers to pray.
He responded to their request with the Our Father prayer.
Many say it’s the perfect prayer… Combining praise, petition, remorse and trust.
By Deacon John Degano
The holidays were a great time to observe the rush-rush of humanity and the preparations that go into the celebration thereof.
By Deacon John Degano
We are collectors of stuff, aren’t we?
We buy things on sale when we don’t really need them. We find things and bring them home thinking that someday we’ll put them to good use only to discover years later that we still haven’t moved them from that temporary storage place where we put them for safe keeping.
By Deacon John Degano
Fires burning in the fireplace. Hot chocolate on the stove… And snowflakes gently falling as we hurried to our rental car from our late afternoon conference session on the campus of the University of Notre Dame, in South Bend, Indiana.
As a native Southern Californian, my wife, Cheryl, isn’t used to “weather.” You know, the thing that causes the leaves to change color, or groundhogs to hibernate…
By Deacon John Degano
I got a phone call today from a woman asking what the difference was between two different Marian days being celebrated in the church some three days apart. I explained, “one was her nativity, the second was her most holy name.”
