Tuesday of the Second Week of Easter https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/041426.cfm Good morning, St. X, and Happy Easter Season. What are your favorite sounds as you go about your day here at Saint Xavier High School? I’ll ask that question again [repeat]. I bet you have never given that much thought. We often tune out familiar noises as we go about life. I want to share with you my four favorite sounds. First, when I come into the Driscoll building in the morning and pass the auditorium, I usually hear a wild and raucous noise drifting up from the weight room at the bottom of the steps. There’s the metallic clang of iron plates hitting each other, the crash of heavy bars, hype-up music blaring, and above it all the primal sound of guys driving each other on. This is what brotherhood sounds like. Second, when I walk down the first floor of the T during the school day, I’m bound to hear a single word—IF!—from our teacher of the year, Coach John Jef...
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."