Simbang Gabi, Mass of the Night, got its start in the Philippines back 400 years ago. At the nine-day novena, which my parish observes at 5 a.m., we get a few hundred Filipinos and
Category: Spirituality
Simbang Gabi Day 1: Emptying Ourselves
“God can’t fill what is already full,” Father Jack O’Hara reminded us this morning at the first of nine 5 a.m. Simbang Gabi Masses at my parish. That’s Father Jack for you. A soft-spoken priest who was our vicar for many years until a
“Nothing Is Ever Lost”
I thought it was lost, my autographed copy of Kathleen Norris’s The Middle of the World, a collection of her poetry I bought in December 1982 at a reading. But I found it last week as
An Open Letter to God
Dear God, Sometimes, you’re really frustrating. I want to write Christian fiction. You know that. And you even provided some positive