by pdavid@stvictoria.org | Mar 17, 2024 | Pondering With Prompts
Lead in: St. Ignatius had the dream of starting a religious order. But he had the freedom to die for his dream if that’s how it had to be.Prompt: Reflect on something you dreamed of being able to do but were never given the chance to do it. How hard was that to grieve...
by pdavid@stvictoria.org | Mar 17, 2024 | Homily Blog
Father Bob White Back in the 150Os a man by the name of Ignatius (he’d later become a saint) had a dream. He wanted to start a religious order that would revitalize a church that had grown quite complacent in its zeal for the Gospel. Just when it looked like his dream...
by pdavid@stvictoria.org | Mar 17, 2024 | Homily Blog
Father Bob White It was the summer of 1936, the hottest summer on record. Eighteen- year -old Bob White Sr., my dad had hitchhiked to Missouri for the summer to take a job pounding spikes for the railroad. The great migration of “Okies” from Oklahoma to the promised...
by pdavid@stvictoria.org | Mar 5, 2024 | Pondering With Prompts
John 3: 14-21 Lead in: In 1936, Bob White, Sr., and in 1966 Bob White, Jr., went back to school in the fall after their summer jobs. They both somehow felt different. They couldn’t explain it, butothers could see it. Maybe it was because they were learning to believe...
by pdavid@stvictoria.org | Mar 5, 2024 | Homily Blog
Deacon Ray Ortman - "I AM A JEALOUS GOD" When I first learned about the Ten Commandments as a child, it bothered me to think that God could be jealous. Jealousy seems such a negative emotion — easily capable of getting out of hand or pushing us to take extreme...
