Dazzling Magic of Congo Square
The grounds of the Plaquemines Government Complex in Belle Chasse, Louisiana, are so large that it was difficult to find the correct entrance to the site of an epic documentary movie shoot of Congo Square. Simo...
Does Your Body Need Vitamin Supplements?
February 5, 2018
When I was on the mend from two cracked ribs, etc., the doctor prescribed, among other pills, a once- a-week-50,000-unit pill for vitamin D. That set me to wondering about the implications or ...
We Must Not Be Lulled Into La-La Land
May 20, 2018
Society of the Divine Word Southern Province U.S.A. Provincial Superior, Father Paul Kahan, sent an urgent email to all of us at 8:20 in the morning of May 7, 2018. Held at gunpoint was the t...
What is your piece of paradise here?
May 28, 2018
Due to ministry, rarely have I had an opportunity to view the Kentucky Derby Run For The Roses, aka “The most exciting two minutes in sports.” One might quibble over one or the other heavyweight b...
A Greiving Mother’s Mother’s Day
May 13, 2018
It was a month of Sundays since A Greiving Mother's Mother’s Day I had received a call from Hannah Augillard Benjamin, but the approach of Mother’s Day 2018 changed that abruptly. Dreary and painf...
Have Opioids Entered Your Life?
January 15, 2018
The pain medicine Tramadol was prescribed for me recently, to be taken every six hours or according to my need, to suppress the pain attendant to two ribs cracked when I stumbled on a marble t...
Poindexter At The Bookends Of My Pastorates
January 22, 2018
Shortly after the October 17, 1981 beginning of my first pastorate at Saint Martin de Porres Church in Prairie View, Texas, Poindexter came to be a well-known name that formed part of the fir...
We Waste Untold Amounts Of Spiritual Gems
January 8, 2018
The outsize physical world in which we live is a paradise overflowing with myriads of spectacular fauna and flora stunning in their variety, purpose and utility to us. About 200,000 years ago, ...
Ex-Slaves Are Laying Siege To Heaven’s Gates
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Every Column/Sermon/Task Is A Meditation
January 29, 2018
Though the following thoughts seem only clerical in nature, they pertain to every human being. When taken into ourselves and absorbed as part of us, a column, sermon, task and all human ...
Willy Nilly – A Therapy Crew Becomes Family
Many assorted and fascinating families accrue to one over the span of a lifetime. It is not surprising in a profession like mine that every parish/church/faith community becomes a close-knit family. But there a...
The Faithfulness of God: The Miracle of our Children
As I prepare my heart for Christmas, I am reminded of the greatest miracle mankind has ever known – the birth and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. It is remarkable that the same God who gave mankind His o...
Thanksgiving must be a Seamless Part of Life
If it takes Thanksgiving Day to make you focus on giving thanks to God, there is a severe deficiency in your attitude toward God, in your prayer life and generally in the gratitude you feel and express toward a...
175th Birthday of Sisters of The Holy Family
A field trip is ever exciting, especially if the occasion is something as rare as a 175th Anniversary. There was excitement at 11:00 a.m. November 19 on N. Union St. just south of Holy Ghost Church. Boardi...
Poindexter at the Bookends of my Pastorates
Shortly after the October 17, 1981 beginning of my first pastorate at Saint Martin de Porres Church in Prairie View, Texas, Poindexter came to be a well-known name that formed part of the first bookend of my pa...