Author Archives: follow1in3

Shifting gears in my priesthood. I have ataxia and it’s getting worse. For those unfamiliar with ataxia it is a degenerative disorder that effects many things most importantly a persons balance. there is no dizziness, just loss of balance. When … Continue reading →

It is coldish and raining. It is also gray, good sleeping weather. Sometimes when I’m depressed I just want to sleep and sleep and sleep. When I was in college seminary I remember telling someone that if I am asleep … Continue reading →

This is from 2012. While walking my dog Artemus and while simultaneously talking to a friend of mine on the phone I had a brilliant idea.  It is so brilliant and so profound yet so simple that I am impelled … Continue reading →

OK, what has to be done by a priest or parish worker before the diocese steps in to correct/resolve the problem? The infraction de jure is molestation and that seems to be only in the last 20 years, at least … Continue reading →

Because Christmas and Easter cannot be separated, the birth of Jesus, the true light coming into the world, and the risen Christ bringing new light and life back into the world that is fallen because of the sin of Adam, … Continue reading →

Back in the seminary all of us had a class in homiletics every semester. One of those times the teacher, a priest, told the class that we give the homily, if we are not egotistical, that we ourselves need to … Continue reading →

At my last reconciliation the priest gave me a penance of reciting 7 times the Serenity Prayer. Since I don’t really know it I looked it up on-line. “Accept the things I cannot change.” That is very difficult for me … Continue reading →

In 1973. when I was nine, Roe v Wade was passed by the Supreme Court making abortion legal in some cases and up to a certain point, across the country. At that time there were a plethora of photographs of … Continue reading →

What is wrong with people? Why would you offer to perform oral sex on a person that you just met, someone that you don’t even know? Are you that in need of money that you are willing to debase yourself. … Continue reading →

I have good news to report, (in a twisted way). I was asked by a young man, well younger than me, who I did not know if I wanted a . I said no. Believe it or not I was … Continue reading →