Dear Parishioners,
Not to be macabre, but if you had to lose one of your senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste), which one would you choose? Or, if you could have only one sense, which would it be? I think it was St. Thomas Aquinas who said that the greatest sense is sight, but for you it might be different. White Sox fans wouldn’t mind being blind these days (sorry).
Dear Parishioners,
The Pharisees attack Jesus and his disciples in today’s Gospel because Jesus and crew didn’t wash their hands before the meal. Was it that the Pharisees were clean freaks? Well, yes and no. Clean freaks not in the sense of sanitation like we would understand it today with germs and illnesses, but clean freaks in the sense of trying to maintain a pure soul.
Dear Parishioners,
The last karaoke song I performed (no, it wasn’t last week…it was back in college, if I recall correctly) was “Cheeseburger in Paradise” by Jimmy Buffett. It’s among my long list of most embarrassing moments. I remember in particular trying to get the crowd going during the part of the song where he chants: “I like mine with lettuce and tomato // Heinz 57 and french fried potatoes // Big kosher pickle and a cold draft beer // Well, good God almighty which way do I steer…”
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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