Dear Parishioners,
In my homily a few weeks ago on the 14th Sunday in Ordinary Time (don’t worry if you can’t remember it, I can’t even remember what I preached this morning), I trashed King Solomon, David’s son. Yes, Solomon built the temple in Jerusalem and put Israel on the map with its wealth and armies and cities, but he also left Israel in serious debt. He actually sold off a portion of Israel in the north to a foreign power, enslaving those people, and imposed heavy taxes on the rest of people. Who cares that the temple is pretty when you’re dying of starvation?
Dear Parishioners,
“For you show your might when the perfection of your power is disbelieved” (Wisdom 12:17).
Dear Parishioners,
I’ve always loved Vincent Van Gogh’s 1888 painting of the Sower (see below). It seems almost elementary, with the big sun and its rays and what not, but it is quite deep.
Father James Wallace grew up in Winnetka, Illinois and attended Sts. Faith Hope and Charity grammar school, New Trier High School, and then The George Washington University in Washington DC, where he earned his undergraduate degree in Political Science in 2007. He attended seminary at The Pontifical North American College in Rome and was ordained a priest in 2012 for the Archdiocese of Chicago. In addition to being the pastor of Saint Paul of the Cross Parish, he serves as a canon lawyer for the Archdiocese, a dean in Vicariate II, and a professor of canon law and spiritual director at Mundelein Seminary. He is also one of the featured Mercy Home Sunday Mass celebrants, airing Sundays at 9:30am on WGN.
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