Old Saint Mary's Cathedral + Chinese Mission

Financial Insecurity HOMILY NOTES FR. TERRY RYAN, CSP MATTHEW 10: 26-33 JUNE 25, 2017 You can learn a lot from the Addiction Twelves Step Recovery Program. It says that after step nine there are promises. One of them is that financial insecurity will be removed. I like that. You sober up, stop being crazy, and get a good job. Finances are good. But that is not what the promise says. It says “fear” will be removed, not financial insecurity. Well, I am suffering s

The Hate Debate In the wake of last week's tragic shooting at a congressional baseball practice, we have been regularly reminded how divided we have become as a society, as social, cultural, and class divisions increasingly seem to replicate our toxic political conflicts and/or are replicated in them. Angst about a "climate of hate" is not exactly new. For example, I can well remember in the aftermath of President Kennedy's assassination much commentary and sermonizing about

Monastery Life I arrived at the monastery on a sunny morning. By the time I had unpacked the car, it was raining. This is what you would call, "A bad day to hay." You cannot harvest hay when it rains. We get a lot of days like this. Retreatants enjoy the sunshine, and then they go inside to read or pray. Hay Ranchers like to pray and read too, but not when it is hay time. God can have early morning, nighttime and evenings for our prayer. Hay Ranchers wants the daytime