When I was a kid, our family kept a May altar. For those who recall the 1950’s, that was not unusual. A home May altar consisted of a statue of Mary placed somewhere for the family to see and perhaps stop and pray. It was a home shrine, if you will, and was kept up throughout the month of May, the month of Mary.            I somehow ...

 Perhaps you have seen the signs around the area, usually at Metro-Parks, that simply read, “Birders Welcome.” Of course, these signs show an awareness of the many visitors to the area who are drawn by the spring migration of warblers and other birds.            I first visited Magee Marsh, then part of Crane Creek, more than twenty years ago ...

  Tomorrow is Star Wars Day. In case you haven’t heard this before, it takes place each year on May 4. Put another way, it is “May the fourth…be with you!” Get it now?            When the first Star Wars movie came out, many picked up on the phrase ‘May the Force be with you’ as almost a liturgical formulation. I think many Catholics made ...

by Fr. Herb Weber I took a walk on a recent evening. The sun, low in the western sky, was still very strong and cast quite a shadow. As I looked east, I could see that the dark image of myself extended twelve to fifteen feet onto the grass. I felt like a mighty tall man!            Shadows can’t exist on their own. They ...

It is dusty, noisy, and very inconvenient…and necessary. I’m referring to the road work being done on Ft. Meigs Rd, just outside of my ‘River’s Edge’ subdivision. The work often means I drive a couple of miles south on some other road in order to come north through the back way, an unpaved road, to my street. My car hasn’t been clean for weeks, but it makes no sense washing it; ...

by Fr. Herb WeberAccording to a recent traffic study, 35,000 cars pass our church each day. Only God knows for sure where all these people are going. I can guess that some are heading to or from work, some to or from school or stores. Others may be driving on their way to a restaurant or for a movie. Perhaps some are driving by without any real reason at all.At the same time, I ...