Lyn Dam

PLEASE REMEMBER AND DO NOT FORGET our second-ever Parish Town Hall Zoom Meeting THIS (Wednesday, April 15) afternoon starting at 5:00. As before, instructions will magically appear on the website…

Here follows a hodgepodge. Snow on Easter Sunday: Good for a laugh; not without its charm. Snow on Easter Monday: Not even good for a chuckle, really; No longer charming,…

You’re not going to believe this, and indeed I’ve never seen anything like it before. Last evening, just as we started live-streaming (can you say DATA, as in if you…

Today, short and sweet. We’re getting ready to celebrate the Triduum and specifically Holy Thursday, or the Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper. Dear Fr. Harmon will be our presider.…

The words “Are we being punished?” appeared in someone’s FB posting this morning. Always on the lookout for stuff to plagiarize things to write about, I made a mental note…

FIRST, SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT: On this Wednesday (April 8) from 5:00 pm until 6:00 pm, we’re going to hold our first-ever LOYOLA TOWN HALL ZOOM MEETING. That’s right and no,…

Here’s something for a sunny Saturday: Why do unfortunate unhappy undesirable unwantedstupid bad things happen? The question brings up theodicy, which is one of the more unfortunate words in the…

I missed April Fool’s Day. Sigh. There’s no making up for that, but here’s a belated riddle: What’s green and plays the guitar? Elvis Parsley! There’s more where that came…

  What a great time to STAY HOME! All the more so as our governor tells us that STAYING HOME is helping to slow the spread of the you-know-what. So…

Dear Brothers and Sisters: These are challenging uncertain hard difficult fearful unsettling troubling adjective-ridden times. You want another thing to worry about? Here’s another thing to worry about: What if…