by pdavid@stvictoria.org | Apr 7, 2024 | Homily Blog
Fr. Bob White I was over at my brother’s last Sunday for Easter. My nephew Bobby whom I baptized is now a strapping teenager. In the last year or so he’s put on fifteen pounds of muscle. My fear was that he was going to challenge me to an arm -wrestling match....
by pdavid@stvictoria.org | Apr 6, 2024 | Homily Blog
Fr. Bob White It was Easter Sunday 1954. It’s Bob and June White and their four kids, my sister Liz 8, my brother Jim 5, my sister Jean 1 and me, 6. Mass at St. Olav has just let out and we’re walking down the sidewalk in downtown Minneapolis. A reporter from the...
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 | 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...
by pdavid@stvictoria.org | Mar 1, 2024 | Faith in Uncertainty News, Homily Blog
The Transfiguration When Peter saw the transfigured Jesus revealed in his glory on the mountain that day his mind races with the possibilities. “I always knew Jesus was special but now I can see him for the rock star he is. His career is going to take off. And I want...
