Feast of Christ the King Nov 21 & 22, 2020 What is your spirit animal? Maybe you are familiar with the concept of ‘spirit animals.’ It originally came from the Lakota tradition of spiritual quests in which an animal spirit guide accompanies a teenaged seeker in a coming-of-age ritual. It has entered into America pop culture. People choose and animal they identify with or whose qualities they really like. My spirit animal is a grizzly bear. The animal for my four-year-old son EJ is a tyrannosaurus rex. Many people choose a fierce animal—one that might be at home as the name of an NFL team. A big cat—Lions, Panthers, Bengal Tigers, Jaguars. Or a bird of prey—Falcons, Eagles, Seahawks. You get the idea. Jesus has a spirit animal, too. Can you...
These posts are the collected homilies of Deacon Ned Berghausen, permanent deacon of the Catholic Archdiocese of Louisville, assigned to St. Agnes Catholic Church. The title "Foot Washer" refers to the Last Supper (John 13:1-20) in which Jesus washed the feet of the apostles and challenged them, "“Do you realize what I have done for you? If I, therefore, the master and teacher, have washed your feet, you ought to wash one another’s feet. I have given you a model to follow."