Legendary basketball coach and fellow Hoosier to me, John Wooden, tells this story: I loved preparing for practice. Every day the staff and I would meet a couple of hours to clarify the plan. The meetings began at 10:00 am. We would schedule each minute and every aspect of the practice. I wanted the team manager to know how many balls we required and where and when we needed them. We evaluated who needed extra work and on what. All the coaches and managers had minute by min

A single mother, trying her best to raise her daughter with faith and integrity - became frantic when she found what she thought was a baggie of pot in her 16-year old’s closet. When her daughter came home from school that day, she confronted her by saying: “Okay, Maria: what is this?” Her daughter replied as only a 14-year-old could: “well, mom, looks like weed to me.” Mom responds by of course saying: “don’t get smart with me, young lady, tell me how you got it a

Divine Mercy Sunday Let’s engage our imaginations for a bit and consider that Jesus’ meetings with the disciples in the upper room after his resurrection could have gone something like this: Peter, I’m surprised to see you here. Did you not deny knowing me three times? And yet you’re still hanging around as if we can still be friends? And Andrew, how about if you finally get out of your brother Peter’s shadow and stand on your own for once? And you James and John? You so

Happy Easter to all of you! I’m glad you chose to spend the morning with us here at St. Patrick, and I hope the rest of the day brings you time spent with family and those you love, celebrating the Lord’s resurrection for Christ the Lord has risen today, alleluia! So a child was sitting at the kitchen table dying Easter Eggs. Her grandmother walked in and asked if the girl knew why we dye eggs on Easter. She said, sure grandma, Jesus died on Good Friday so that we can dye