Teach us to Pray
What we have just heard from the Scriptures is a very early version of what we no call the Lord’s prayer. When I call us to pray this prayer here at the C...
Author: Fr. Peter
Ted Cruz and the Non-endorsement
It is no secret that I do not like much of anything that Ted Cruz stands for. I think he is a dangerous theocrat that needs to be stopped. Howev...
God Will Never Leave Us, EVER!
One of the biggest lies circulating the political spectrum these days is that God will abandon the United States and us if we vote for Hillary Clinton. This is...
Politics and Religion
It has been said that when you mix politics and religion, you get politics. Well, there has been a lot of mixing of the two in this presidential election cycle...
A Special Word of Thanks
Putting together an event such as a family reunion is never just the work of one person. Many hands make the event as great as I thought our most recent reunio...
Bearing One Another’s Burdens
Charles Plumb, a U.S. Naval Academy graduate, was a jet fighter pilot in Vietnam. After 75 combat missions, his plane was destroyed by a surface-to-air missile....
Putting on the Mantle
In the last days of the Civil War, the Confederate capital, Richmond, Virginia, fell to the Union army. Abraham Lincoln insisted on visiting the city. Even thou...
The Image of God and the Present Culture War
In a recent New York Times Op-Ed, David Brooks wrote about the culture war that we have heard so much about during this election cycle. In the piece, he argues...
Common Decency is not so Common
Last week I posted the picture above on my Facebook wall. As one can imagine it sent off a lively discussion about that is right and what is wrong. Most of th...
Slavery in Colonial Boston
In a previous post, I mentioned that I have begun giving tours of the Old North Church in Boston a couple of times a month. Giving these tours is an exce...