I’m here to tell you that you need to get ready. We’re getting ready to get hit. No, it’s not another hurricane coming through. No, it’s not another thunderstorm, although I’m sure we’re going to get more of those. No, it’s not an earthquake. We’re getting ready to get hit with everybody and their brother … [Read more…]
Yesterday at Mass we learned how to pray. We learned the same thing that every Catholic learned in every church around the world. We learned The Lord’s Prayer. This isn’t the first time we’ve learned it. We learn it all the time. But maybe this is the first time I learned it all. Because there … [Read more…]
“For this command that I enjoin on you today is not too mysterious and remote for you. It is not up in the sky, that you should say, ‘Who will go up in the sky to get it for us and tell us of it, that we may carry it out?’ Nor is it across … [Read more…]
Many year ago, Fr. Walter Hancock instructed all of his parishioners to go home after Mass, clean up their tractors and horses and trailers and bring them back to town that afternoon because Fancy Farm was going to have a 4th of July parade. Fr. Hancock was known for calling people out during his sermon … [Read more…]
After church on Easter Sunday we were just hanging at the house before we went to Sunday brunch. At some point in time Jimmy hollered that he had a cow out and we all sprang into action. That’s what we do at our house. If you want to get somebody out of bed fast, then … [Read more…]
In July of 2009 was my first real experience with Sheriff Redmon. Jimmy and I were chairmen of the St. Jerome One Mile Classic, which is held every year the night before the famous St. Jerome Fancy Farm Picnic. We’ve done the race for years, which is geared mostly towards kids. There are some adults … [Read more…]
“Oh the sun shines bright on my Old Kentucky Home . . .” I love that song. I love the images that it creates. I love My Old Kentucky Home State Park. I love everything about old, and Kentucky, and home. But most importantly, I love that it is mine. The house that I was … [Read more…]
I was born down the road from Bourbon Stockyards in Louisville, Kentucky. The house I came home to on Mellwood Avenue, is not there anymore. Now it’s a driveway. But we would drive right by Bourbon Stockyards on our way home from my grandmother’s house on Barrett Avenue. I never gave it much thought. I … [Read more…]
Right now, the United State of America is in mourning. We have lost a senior statesman, a former President, a true-blue American hero. And we all have our reasons for mourning this man that some absolutely loved while he was in office while others couldn’t stand him and the job that he did. But we … [Read more…]
My son has a friend who has made up his mind he wants to be Catholic. He doesn’t have any family members who are Catholic. He went about this, in my opinion, the right way. He considered several different religions, studied them, asked about them, and then decided that he wanted to learn more about … [Read more…]