Happiness in a Song

Happiness in a Song

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Back in about 1990, I was visiting an elderly lady who was in Hospice. I was a Hospice Chaplain at that time. She lived about twenty miles north of Green Bay, Wisconsin, in a little village called Dykesville. She was dying of cancer. As we sat in her living room...
My First Emergency Call

My First Emergency Call

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I remember one evening in 1966, a couple of months after I was ordained a priest. The phone rang where I was living in Little Chute, and a call came in for a priest to respond to a car/train accident, about one mile away. None of the other priests were around, so I...
Singing at Funerals

Singing at Funerals

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Singing at Funerals and a Different Slant on Christianity In recent years, I’ve sung at dozens of funerals in various Catholic churches. Sometimes in a funeral choir, but most often as a cantor (soloist). The family often picks the songs to be sung and in what...
Why Write The Book?

Why Write The Book?

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WHY WRITE THE BOOK?                                   Since High School, some seventy years ago, I have watched many people, especially youth, stop attending church. Listening to hundreds of sermons over the years, I have wondered why so much emphasis was placed on...
This Is How It All Began

This Is How It All Began

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THIS IS HOW IT ALL BEGAN In 1954, I entered Sacred Heart Seminary at Oneida, just west of Green Bay, the fall after I graduated from 8th grade. I had worked that summer and the following summer at Leyse Aluminum Company in Kewaunee, mostly washing windows and sweeping...