Deacon Doug Mould

There’s a common phrase that I’ve heard many, many times over the years; I know I’ve used it often enough.  I’m sure everyone here has heard it and probably even used it yourself.  When someone makes a mistake, does something wrong, maybe even in a sinful way, there is a tendency to say to that […]

I’m sure many of you have the experience of not being able to celebrate Christmas with some family members on Christmas Day, so you wait until the following weekend or whenever you can get together to celebrate this wonderful occasion with a meal and exchanging gifts.  Maybe you forgot to get a Christmas Card right

“Are you the one who is to come, or should we look for another?”  It’s hard for me to imagine this question coming from John the Baptist.  So let’s put in in context: John is in prison. This is some time—probably several years after the Baptism of Jesus. He witnessed the descent of the Holy

As we come to the end of the Church’s liturgical year we hear certain Scripture passages that might cause us to ask “This is the Good News?”  The Gospel passage that we just heard is part of a “discourse,” or a speech, in which Jesus speaks of what we would call the End Times.  This

Let us begin by calling on the Holy Spirit to enliven us: Come, Holy Spirit!  Come, Holy Spirit! As you know, last week we had a visiting priest, Father Elias, who came from Columbus to celebrate the Eucharist for us in Father Tom’s absence.  Unfortunately, I was unable to be here Saturday evening to assist

Let us begin by invoking the Holy Spirit: Come, Holy Spirit!  Come, Holy Spirit! As we have made our way though the Gospel of Luke during this liturgical year, there has been a particular theme that has come up again and again.  Mercy and forgiveness.  Last week Father Tom reminded us in his homily that

Come, Holy Spirit! Come, Holy Spirit! A couple weeks ago, Father Tom asked that we begin our liturgies and homilies by invoking the Holy Spirit to be present to us as we worship God, to animate us and draw us closer to Him. And that is so appropriate with the Gospel reading for this Mass

In the second reading today from the Letter to the Colossians, Saint Paul says something rather peculiar: “Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am filling up what is lacking in the afflictions of Christ on behalf of his body which is the church.”  We know that Paul

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Okay, now, be honest.  When you just made the sign of the cross, was that an instinctive reaction, or were you really thinking of what you were doing? Too often, I think, we get into habits where we do things

In the Gospel passage that we just heard, Jesus and his disciples are at the Last Supper; they finished their meal, Jesus had already washed the disciples’ feet, and Judas just left to betray Jesus.  And then Jesus says something rather curious.  As soon as Judas left, Jesus says, “Now is the Son of Man