tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-180796132011-11-18T06:18:47.863-06:00Reflections of a Roman Catholic parish priest on Sunday lectionary readings and his favorite sports team, the Tennessee VolunteersFr. Bryan Timbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11182031302821515563noreply@blogger.comBlogger421100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18079613.post-4661123254690871022011-04-20T23:13:00.002-05:002011-04-20T23:31:22.447-05:00

In recent weeks I have been focused on the migratary nature of G-d. He is love that cannot be contained. He is compassion poured out. In the Second Person of the Holy Trinity, G-d is a migrant who leaves behind that which He is accustomed, not grasping for it or trying to cling to it, and takes up residence in a world that rejects Him because it doesn't understand Him and is uncomfortable with

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Good morning everyone. Happy Easter. Alleluia! It sure feels good to say that. Seeing the church bursting at the seams gives me a really good feeling. May the rest of the day be as joyful for you as this moment is for me. Every time I celebrate a big holiday I can’t help but think back to my childhood. I love to recall the anticipation, the parties, the great food, the presents, the candy,

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OK. The first BCS poll was released yesterday afternoon. I can understand how Ohio State is in first place. (I will pull even for them to win the National Chanpionship if an SEC team fails to make the title game.) But, there are several things I just do not understand about the rankings. Call it "sour grapes" if you want, but I am completely befuddled. How can Southern Cal (oops...-ifornia)

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In an age when many of us find it difficult to make ends meet, contemporary society bombards us with a set of values based on the need for material security. It judges our success by the size of our bank account, the extent of our possessions and the exclusiveness of the area in which we choose to live. But the wisdom that comes from God, described in today's first reading, measures differently

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Forgive me, but I only saw the last 27 seconds of the Tennessee entrapment of the Golden Bears on Saturday. Weddings are necessary evils during pigskin season and I was witnessing one for some dear people, but I was able to check the flow of the game by looking at my text messages being sent by a volunteer army of friends at the game seated in ZZ13. (I hope Kenneth from Murfreesboro, who bought

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The University of Tennessee Volunteers kickoff at 5:30 pm (EDT) on Saturday. I will be in the air on the way to a commitment in New Jersey, but I will have my orange and white rosary with me to assure that someone is praying for the Men of Orange play to the best capabilities against the Golden Bears who enter the season a Top 10 choice in most polls. Yesterday, The UT quarterback, Erik Ainge,

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The University of Tennessee Volunteers kickoff at 5:30 pm (EDT) on Saturday. I will be in the air on the way to a commitment in New Jersey, but I will have my orange and white rosary with me to assure that someone is praying for the Men of Orange play to the best capabilities against the Golden Bears who enter the season a Top 10 choice in most polls. Yesterday, The UT quarterback, Erik Ainge,

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Here are some pictures of Bailey's puppies by Ch. Timbe's Monsignor O'Bryan. They were four weeks old on Sunday. You will notice some stitches in the eys lids. These are called "eye tacks" and are used to lift the heavy brow caused by wrinling so the puppies can open their eyes and see the worlf. The boy has had to have tacks from the beginning. The girl with tacks made the unfortunate

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Recently I received over the Internet the story of a woman arrested for road rage. It seems she was quite angry at the man driving in front of her. She was blowing her horn in an effort to get him to speed up. At the stop light, she rolled down her window and was shouting obscenities at the man, who must have been a saint for the way he controlled himself. A police officer pulled up behind her

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The Vols open the 2006 campaign in just a week and a half! What an opener it will be in Knoxville against the Golden Bears of the University of California at Berkely, a team ranked in the Top 10 by most preseason polls. Unfortunately, I will not be at the game nor do I expect a positive outcome for Tennessee. My friend Mike (see picture as he enjoys our seats in ZZ 7: 5-8) says I am the eternal

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Notice how big they have gotten. The boy is in the middle flanked by the two girls. The boy measures 11 inches from nose to rump today.

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Bailey whelped three puppies on the morning of July 30, 2006. She had two girls and one boy. The first puppy, a girl, got caught in her birth canal and hung there for more than 45 minutes. Although she was quite active for the first thirty minutes she went lifeless and limp as her placenta had been detached too long. However, once she was on the ground some rigourous stimulation by me and some

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I don’t think it would be a stretch to say that we know what Elijah is talking about when he says: “Lord, I’ve had enough.” Broken and dispirited on his journey in the wilderness, he has reached the end of his rope. At his lowest ebb, an angel of God comes to his rescue and feeds him with miraculous food – a hearth cake and a jug of water. His flagging hope is restored by this bread from

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The crowd has come a long way to hear Jesus speak and expound on the Law of Moses. Now they find themselves in a deserted place without food and are feeling the pangs of hunger. In his compassion, Jesus inquires about the food supply on hand and discovers all that is available are five barley loaves and two fishes in the possession of a young boy.We can easily picture this youth’s bewilderment

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Today’s gospel portrays an example of the healing power of Jesus in an uncommonly moving scene. Jairus, a respected synagogue official, has a little daughter who is seriously ill, on the point of death. In desperation he seeks out Jesus and begs him to come to his house to lay hands on his daughter and cure her. Jesus responds without hesitation, but on the way news comes that the little girl

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Has faith ever prompted you to act beyond your doubts?For a year beginning in the summer of 1978 as I prepared to leave for the seminary, I was filled with many doubts. I asked myself questions such as “Am I doing the right things?,” “Will my business sell?,” “What if it doesn’t work out?,” Am I doing God’s will or mine?” It was a time in my life I had to rely on my faith that I was answering a

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Some years ago Prudential Insurance Company was building a new facility to house its operational headquarters. Company officials thought that it would be nice to plant a time capsule that would be opened fifty years in the future. Among the items sealed in the capsule were predictions by various civic leaders. Before they placed them in the capsule, the each leader read read his prediction to

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There is no greater love than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends (John 15:13)George Koskimak’s book D-Day with the Sreaming Eagles details the courage of the paratroopers who launched the invasion of Europe on D-Day, June 6, 1944. They willingly gave their lives that their comrades in arms might land more safely on the beaches of Normandy. In one company alone, 219 men jumped from

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Dear graduates, Fr. Russ, faculty, staff, parents, family and friends:This evening we gather not for an ending but for a new beginning. That is what each and every Mass celebrates – a new beginning in Christ Jesus. But tonight we also have a commencement exercise that is commonly called graduation. While there will certainly be tears shed by some during the course of this evening because an era

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Well, I am off to Italy for two weeks with Debra Pieri and Renee Albonetti, friends from church. (Renee’s mother drives me home after 6:15 a.m. Mass every morning.) It is Debra and Renee’s first trip to the land of their grandparents. We will do a grand tour by car with me driving, spending two days with relatives and friends we are yet to meet in Lucca. (Most of the Italians At Holy Rosary trace

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Not many people are familiar with the name Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin. In the early part of the last century he was a very powerful man who had great influence. A Russian Communist leader, he took part in the Bolshevik Revolution 1917, was editor of the Soviet newspaper Pravda (which, by the way means, truth), and was a full member of the Politburo. His works on economics and political science

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It’s a question I hear asked often, especially by the older generations like mine: What’s wrong with the world today? Nobody seems to have a definitive answer because the opinions are so varied. It’s a riddle that mankind has tried to answer for generation after generation. I’m certain that Plato posed the question in some philosophical way. The prophets railed against the problems of their

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There are three verses that are integral to understanding the lessons of this weekend’s liturgy.I will place my law within them and write it on their heartsSon though he was, he learned obedience through sufferingUnless the grain of wheat falls to the earth and dies, it remains just a grain of wheat. But if it dies, it produces much fruitToo many people, even today, tend towards the belief that

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A #2 seed in the NCAA Basketball Tournament for the Tennessee Volunteers! I can't belive it. With four losses in our last six games and two of those losses at home, I was expecting a 4th or 5th seed. I guess our out-of-conference schedule and record and the fact that we beat both the SEC Conference tournament Champion and Runner-Up twice during the regular season and thrashed fellow #2 seed Texas

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Journeys to mountaintops figure in both the reading from Genesis and the Gospel of Mark this weekend.For a guy who spent his youth on the flat farmland of Central Ohio, mountains were the images presented in geography books or on postcards. I didn’t see my first mountain until September 1969 when I arrived in Knoxville and my parents and I took a drive through the Smokies. I was amazed at how

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After nearly three years on the dog show curcuit, Bailey (Ch. Preshar Jodao Baywalker) is home. The winner of the 2003 Chinese Shar-Pei Club of America National Specialty and several Bests In Show at All-Breed shows around the country, Baily is now ready to relax and consider dating. Her last show was the 2006 Westminster Kennel Club Show at Madison Square Garden, Feb. 13-14, where she took Best

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What about those LADY VOLS! A 1-point win over LSU to take the SEC tournament on Sunday helps to make-up for the team's three conferences losses. Two of those losses were at home, the first home conference losses in more than ten years. It's hard to fall from being #1 in the polls all season all the way to number 8 or 9 depending on the poll. Maybe this win will send them back up a few notches

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Each year on the First Sunday of Lent the Church recalls Jesus’ 40-day retreat in the desert where he was tempted by Satan. Mark’s version of the Lord’s trials is the briefest of the three. There is no scriptural tête-à-tête. There is no specific number of temptations Jesus had to face. There is only the statement that Jesus went into the desert and was tempted by Satan.Jesus came into the world

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It’s an amazing sight to behold. Hundreds of people in hospital beds and wheelchairs being pushed from the infirmary to the spring of water at Lourdes are filled with the hope that they will be miraculously healed of their infirmity. The crutches that hang near the spring that bubbles up in the old garbage dump where Bernadette had conversations with the Blessed Virgin is evidence that some

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Fr. Bryan P. TimbyIsaiah 61:1-2a, 10-11; 1 Thessalonians 5:16-24; John 1:6-9, 19-28Did you ever have any one ask you, “Who died and made you the messiah?” Maybe you posed that question to someone who was acting as if he was the fountain of truth.It’s amazing how many young priests (and, I’m not talking about Fr. Russ) come out of the seminary and move into their first parish assignment with the

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Fr. Bryan TimbyDecember 4, 2005Things really haven’t changed much from the time John came out of the desert calling for repentance. The people then had little hope for a brighter future with the Romans in control of their homeland. Taxes were skyrocketing. Unemployment was high. The poor were growing poorer and the wealthy were getting richer. There was corruption at all levels of government.

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Fr. Bryan P. TimbyNov. 27, 2005Well, the countdown has begun. It began at six o’clock Friday morning when stores all over the country opened their door to usher in the “Christmas Shopping Season.” Merchants are excited this year and anticipate an increase in sales over last year because of the good economy. The shoppers are so excited that they even trampled over one another as they sought the

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By: Bryan TimbyIn a world that seems to have lost its sense of personal responsibility and accountability, the parable in today’s Gospel sounds a warning that not only we, but groups and corporations must heed.We have seen corporate irresponsibility wipe out thousands of people’s financial security. Greed coupled with dishonesty is always a lose-lose proposition. Enron. WorldCom. United

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Eleven of us made it to the 40th Reunion of the Graduating Class of 1965 from St. Mary's Elementary School in Delaware, Ohio. We gather at Brewskee's Restaurant in Delaware on Friday, October 28. We talked and shred memories from 8 o'clock until after midnight.John Bills and his wife Joanne, Jimmy Russell, Fred Furlong, Cathy Wolf, Cathy (Reed) and her husband Ralph Bennett, Ed Connell and he

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By: Fr. Bryan TimbyThe Gospel today, my friends, is very clear in its lesson. Stay awake! Pay attention! Be prepared!In our western culture we don’t see wedding celebrations of the sort described in the parable of the ten virgins waiting for the arrival of the bridegroom, but they are still common place in the Middle East even two thousand years after Jesus spoke to the people of their need to be

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Today is Freddie Furlong's 54th birthday. He was a classmate of mine from second grade until Christmas of my senior year of high school. Why I remember his birthday, I have no idea; the same reason I remember Steve Stromberg's birthday is 9/26, I guess.I will be seeing Freddie and Steve this coming Friday as we celebrate our 40th Reunion for the St. Mary's, Delaware, OH, 8th Grade Class of 1965.

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Fr. Bryan TimbyOne of the anthems for my generation in the summer of 1968 was “All You Need Is Love” by the Beatles. It was a simple song with a simple message.The same thought has been expressed through the ages by couples in love when confronted by parents concerned for the welfare of their children trying to make it in the world. “They say our love won’t pay the rent…but I got you, Babe” has

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Well, the game was a defensive one. It was closer than I thought at 6-3 with Bama winning with 13 seconds left in the game. Of course, Tennessee had two huge fumbles that gave the game away. The first happened less than five minutes into the game when we lost the ball at the 11 yard line on a way to a score. The second was a fumble that rolled out of the back of the end zone, turning the ball

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It used to be the third Saturday of October every year, but in recent years it seems THE game is played on the fourth Saturday of the month. Tennessee versus Alabama. The Vols against the Crimson Tide. What a bitter rivalry it was for more than 50 years. Then the Southeastern Conference expanded and new rivals came into play: Florida and Georgia. Bama is still hated by the Big Orange, but the

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Pat Heffernan, 1932-2005Funeral: 10/14/2005Yesterday afternoon, when Pat’s body was first brought to church two things of great significance occurred. Fr. Russ sprinkled the coffin and proclaimed, “As Pat died with Christ in Baptism so may he rise with him to everlasting life,” and the white pall was draped over the coffin.Both of these actions remind us of the faith that Pat proclaimed and the

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The tension between religion and government has existed for a long time. Just in recent days we have seen this tension lived out in the upheaval of religious activists trying to prevent an election in Iraq and the controversy over the most recent nominee to our Supreme Court.This tension is something our founding fathers wanted to avoid when they included a clause in the Constitution prohibiting

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