Everything I know…I know only because I love -Tolstoy I smell the beautiful day, listen to the sounds of music and giggling outside, look at the sunshine. It is life-giving. It is Easter. Only because I love I can say I know it personally. Sometimes, I feel that my prayer and relationship with Jesus is […]
Farewell to Fr. Clem
+ RIP Fr. Clem, a former director of Jesuit Retreat House in Parma, used to joke, "Spare me, Oh Lord!" When his coffin was lowered on the hill of Colombiere, Michigan, I knew the Lord spared him for eternity. The mass of Christian burial was simple and yet beautiful. Many Jesuit priests with a lot […]
Go, Fr. H.Paul!
I am born to be a football player in Korea. Football is the easiest game in the world and everybody loves it except the United States. They call football soccer which had confused me because their football is not football in a sense of using hands most time and sometimes kicking. Since there is a […]
“Father, for I have sinned…”
Every Saturday afternoon, I listen to the words, “Father, for I have sinned…” In the small confessional, I encounter various lives—a second grader’s first confession, a troubled teen’s complaints, an engaged couple’s duets, a single adult’s loneliness, a married man’s midlife crisis, a widow’s nostalgia, and etc. Today, I met a woman who has […]
How old am I?
In the last school mass for the kindergarten, third and fourth grades at St. Anthony church, I asked the kindergarten, "Do you think how old I am?" They seriously thought and said, "86!" I laughed and another raised a hand and said, "100!" So I showed the picture taken one hundred days after my […]
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