At 9:30 p.m., I found myself sitting in full daylight beside a glacier-fed babbling brook in Denali, Alaska. I had just started to feel a chill in the 40-degree temperature. The loud, fast-rushing rapids disturbed the otherwise peaceful surrounding. It’s funny that the noise reminded me of the troubles in this world that interrupt what […]
Yesterday, I visited Denali National Park in Alaska. Denali is the highest mountain in North America at 20,310 feet. The park ranger who led our tour asked, “What word comes to mind when you see that view?” Completely covered in snow (in August), Denali took my words away. One fellow tourist said Middle Earth; another […]
Every holiday holds a special memory. I’m fortunate that most memories are happy for me and sometimes even a bit silly. Mom used this little cake tin every Easter. Some years she nailed it right on; other years, she poured too much cake batter into the tin and as the poor lamb cake started to […]
What do you remember of your senior year in high school? The better question is “who” do you remember from your senior year in high school? Last May, I attended my 50th high school reunion in Wellsboro, PA (putting 50th in writing looks like such a high number). I truly enjoyed the entire weekend of […]
Our preacher at Hillside Fellowship in Spring Branch, Texas, is always saying how religion ruins God’s message. Religion tends to be laws or mandates that people have pulled out of scripture. And “religion” has pulled God’s people apart. It’s divisive instead of inclusive. Do you dunk or do you sprinkle for baptism? Is communion once […]
It’s mid-March, which means in upper Pennsylvania, the Maple sap running is just about over. My father collected sap in the early hours of the late February/early March mornings before he went to work. Sometimes I woke early enough to go with him at 4:00 a.m. when he replaced the pails of frozen sap on […]
Tomorrow is St. Patrick’s Day. In my grade school days at Charleston Elementary outside of Wellsboro, Pennsylvania, we celebrated every holiday with flair. St. Patrick’s Day held a myriad of options. The teachers could always introduce one more story of a magical leprechaun or a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. It […]
Saturday Morning: 8:00 am
Saturday Vigil: 4:30 pm
Sunday: 7:30 am, 9:00 am, 10:45 am,
12:30 pm, 5:30 pm
Saturday Vigil: 6:15pm
Sunday: 9:00am, 7:15pm
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday & Friday: 8:30 am
