The Verge of Jordan

Grandma At 97 PHOTO CREDIT: Tammy Paolino Firstly I want to thank you for taking the time to remember my grandmother with us today. She ...

 “A boy like that will kill your brother Forget that boy, and find another One of your own kind, stick with your own kind” - WEST SIDE ST...

Gregory the Great - Bishop & Doctor (604)  “Baby I've been thinkin’ ’bout a trailer by the sea We could go to Mexico, just you, ...

THIRTY years ago, my family and I flew a TWA 747 from JFK to Rome.  It was -- as far as I know -- my first time on a plane, and this was whe...

Thomas Cranmer - Archbishop of Canterbury and Martyr (1556) So New York was abuzz about the perigee-syzygy  (extreme supermoon) that too...

THIRD SUNDAY AFTER THE EPIPHANY I didn't know Maurice, but I've seen Rocky, his horse. Horses are (or were) a dime a dozen where ...

Francis of Assisi - Friar (1226) I am supposed to be going through the giant jumble of CD's, shucking them from their jewel cases and...

Bernard of Clairvaux - Abbot, Theologian & Poet (1153) ST. MAARTEN This morning we arrived at Phillipsburg, St. Maarten, the only of ...

William Porcher DuBose - Priest & Theologian (1918) ST. LUCIA Today's port-of-call was St. Lucia.  A little more than a hundred m...

Samuel Johnson, Timothy Cutler, and Thomas Bradbury Chandler Early Priests of the American Church   BARBADOS Dawn off Barbados This ...

MARY THE VIRGIN - MOTHER OF CHRIST Uncle Ziggy and Aunt Bertha aboard ship My love of ships dates back to 1974.  That summer, my grandf...