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Did God abandon you today? Did it feel like God abandoned you? Did you cry out: “My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?” (Psalm 22:1). We say that we believe that God is everywhere. Where was God at my work place, at school, in my house today? Was God present to me, to…

“I told my wife that I needed her support in relating to my co-workers at my new job. She told me to ‘be a man’ and deal with it myself.” — “My husband comes home from his job and does not talk to me, or ask me what happened today. He starts to drink and…

There are so many challenges for keeping our children safe and healthy. We must protect our daughters and sons at home, at school, and at sporting and social events. Sometimes, we need to trust other family members or friends with the task of watching our children. Of course, at school, we entrust our children to…

Food insecurity, or, not knowing from where your next meal is coming, is an on-going, global problem. Hunger and food insecurity is a problem in Brown County, too. Estimates by “Feeding America” show nearly 10% of the population in the county will experience food insecurity in 2021. Hunger issues have been negatively affected by COVID-19…

A culture of vengeance and violence is not a Christian culture. Some of you have heard me speak of the “Culture of God.” This was suggested as another way to refer to the Kingdom of God/heaven. For most people culture has more significance than kingdom.      In “God’s culture” there must be love, peace, forgiveness,…

At the weekend Masses of September 25-26, we made some effort to “welcome back” parishioners who have been away during the time of COVID-19 restrictions. Even as we welcomed people, we also needed to be careful. I know I have repeated such news many times, but at this writing, Brown County has reached 13 consecutive…

One day you buy a lottery ticket with some random numbers. It is a Powerball ticket that costs $2.00. The ticket appears like all the other tickets. The day you buy the ticket, it has a value of $2. Later, as the ticket sits on the kitchen table, you hear the winning lottery numbers called…

A child sees another child fall down and goes to help her get up. A swimmer flounders in the water and a person passing by does not hesitate. She jumps into the water to try to give assistance. A new student in the local high school is being bullied and another student approaches in order…

Perhaps you have seen someone being bullied or harassed at a store, in a restaurant, or on the street. Maybe you approached them to try to diminish the intensity, the anger, and the violence of the situation. Without knowing the initial reason for the conflict, you only knew that such anger, even violence, toward another…

Domestic Violence Awareness Month is October. In order that we begin to do even better at preventing violence and helping abused persons, we need to think about preventing this evil for more than one month. Every year I encounter parishioners and others who have experienced violence in the home. Furthermore, I have witnessed verbal and…