But they do want to sleep in, at least a little, so they come to the later morning Masses. At these Masses, the size of the congregation may grow as much as 80% between the last verse of the opening hymn and the end of the homily. Some folks try to be discreet about their tardy...
I’ve written a homily for the day but it feels as real to me as the fake lilies that don’t make me sneeze. And there have been Good Fridays when I’m just pretending to be sad and solemn but my heart and soul are already at the empty tomb. As much as I like things to be ...
We accept “proof of work” based on the assumption that there is no faster way to find a nonce which will give a new block a good enough hash value than brute-force search (currently requiring sextillions of guesses on average). But what if there were a hole in the crypto, a short...
It usually takes place during a Holy Mass. If this is the Easter Vigil, the whole affair isabout 3 hours. Outside of this , the ceremony at a regularly scheduled Holy Mass but for people to be confirmed, maybe an hour and a half. Is confirmation in the Bible? The roots of confirmati...
It is managing our thoughts about the coronavirus. Advice frequently offered by the Dalai Lama is that if something can be fixed, why worry about it, and if it can’t be fixed, what is to be gained from worrying about it? This goes beyond a glib homily because he also suggests how ...
issues = death to drama. Even though I knew then and appreciate now how “Lou Grant” dealt with issues every week, that show tended to do it so well. You’d come out worrying about the regular or the guest cast, and it didn’t magically fix the lives of either with a homily. ...