What Sticks Archive - Click on a post title to read the full post.

A couple years ago, I was sitting in Church and was shocked out of being on autopilot while listening to the sermon. Since that time this sermon has impacted me repeatedly on my path to Christ - helping me to stay focused and let distractions go.
That Sunday we had readings from the old and new [...]

My third installment of What Stick comes from my high school years (in fact I have several from then). The topic was about how you get into heaven.
The question was posed to us, a group of 150 high school boys - how do we get into heaven. Was it in who we were? [...]

What Sticks is a series of posts that recall sermons from priests over my life that have stuck with me. I probably don’t remember everything from these sermons nor do I get it quite the same, but these messages have stayed with me for some time. This next sermon comes from my high [...]

This is the first of the my “What Sticks” posts - posts about sermons that I have heard that have stuck with me across time.  For all of these, I am certain that I am not doing them justice relative to their original deliver.  I am sure I am missing an illustration or nuance.  [...]

So we sit at the end of Ordinary Time with Lent starting tomorrow. It was the shortest period of Ordinary Time in most of our lives - The last time lent started this early was in 1918 when Easter was also on March 23, but lent started February 4th - it starts the 5th [...]