Bulletin column for St. Mary's Parish in Griffith, Ind. Jesus said to them, “Come, have breakfast.” Jesus cooked and served his friends a meal. This may seem mundane and even baffling to us, yet when you really stop to think about it, cooking for someone is a truly intimate encounter. Anyone who cooks will tell you when you make something from scratch for company, you want it to reflect how much you care about them. You want them to leave your table knowing they are loved, tr

Bulletin column for St. Mary's Parish in Griffith, Ind. The notion of the Transfiguration can be puzzling, and I imagine it was none too different for Peter, James and John, the three disciples who were there as it happened. Here they are, sleeping peacefully, when they open their eyes and have no idea what this miraculous thing transpiring before them really is. I see the three disciples as precursors to Sherlock Holmes. They know they awoke to something, but all they have i