Foot-washer

 A Wedding Homily    Jeremiah 31:31-32a, 33-34a Psalm 128 Romans 15:1b-3a, 5-7, 13 Matthew 7:21, 24-25 Good afternoon, friends and family of L and A and especially to our very soon-to-be bride and groom.   It is a pleasure to be here with you to celebrate and witness to this joyous event. I am Ned Berghausen, permanent deacon here at St. Agnes. If you ask L and A how they met, the two of them will tell you a story with lots of disputed facts.   They first met when they were out at night somewhere. Maybe…   A doesn’t remember that.   L’s told him many times the facts of the meeting he just doesn’t remember it. No, he says, they first met when she began interning at his workplace.   But she was acting strangely shy—and hiding behind a pillar. The two of them frequently interrupt and tease each other.   You can tell this is a story that they’ve told and fought about many times.   They tell me, “our friends would describe us as an old ...

5th Sunday of Ordinary Time   Cycle C Feb 6, 2022 Bellarmine University – Our Lady of the Woods Chapel https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/020622.cfm   Good evening Bellarmine and Happy Sunday.   I’m Ned Berghausen, a permanent deacon at St. Agnes across the street as well as graduate of this university.   Thanks to the friars for inviting me to serve and to preach this evening.   The first time I preached with Fr. John it was very unexpected.   I travelled with him to India on one of the Christmas Break trips he organizes. This was six or seven years ago before I was ordained.   I was at an early morning mass in a friary filled with Franciscan priests and seminarians.   Fr. John read the Gospel and when he was done, he turned to me and said, “we don’t usually give homilies at morning mass, so I would like to invite Ned to come up in preach.”   Luckily, he gave me a little more warning for this one.   And I’ve had a little more t...