Category Archives: Fr. Tim S. Hickey

Feb 12 2019

Unwashed Hands, Unwashed Hair

Click here for daily readings One Christmas holiday several years ago, my oldest niece, a college student at the time, brought her boyfriend home to meet my parents, her grandparents. The first morning of their visit, Mark came ...

Jan 09 2019

Satisfaction

Click here for daily readings Whether the soundtrack of your life spins the Rolling Stones’ classic “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” or Devo’s more agitated version of the song some 15 years later, o...

Jul 28 2018

Harvesting Weeds and Wheat

Click here for daily readings In Dante’s Inferno, he passes through the gates of hell above which are inscribed these words, “Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.” That’s almost the situation we find in t...

Jun 28 2018

Exile and Return

Click here for daily readings Earlier this week at daily Mass we began hearing readings from the second Book of Kings. We’re being introduced to ancient kings from Assyria and Babylon who have one intent: to overthrow the ...

Jun 15 2018

Why Are You Here?

Click here for daily readings “Elijah, why are you here?” That’s the question the voice of the Lord poses to the Old Testament prophet in our first reading today from the First Book of Kings (19:9a, 11-16). Eli...

May 28 2018

Look of Love

Click here for daily readings Today’s Gospel contains what may be the most reassuring words in all of Scripture. A young man has run up to Jesus to ask him a question about the demands of discipleship. After Jesus reminds...

May 15 2018

Beginnings and Endings

Click here for daily readings In these final days before the great Solemnity of Pentecost, the Mass readings speak of endings and beginnings. We know that something new is about to happen: The Church is about to be born through ...