by Michael Murphy
My wife and I are long-time members of the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul, an international group of men and women who help FINs (friends in need). Last Friday (January 30th, 2026), my wife and I met a man who was in his 40s. He was disabled and had a heart...
by Michael Murphy
Sometimes It Takes Two To Accomplish What One Man Cannot Do I grew up on a sixty-acre farm. My chores were to feed the chickens, geese, and ducks. Besides those chores, I had to milk our Guernsey cow twice a day for a quarter of a pail of rich milk, and one experience...
by Michael Murphy
Have you ever thought of writing a Christmas carol? Every year, the radio begins playing Christmas carols earlier and earlier. Whatever music idiom you listen to, along with the classical carols, people write lyrics and melodies that might be sacred, simple, clever,...
by Michael Murphy
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...
by Michael Murphy
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...
by Michael Murphy
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...
