St. Agnes Catholic Church Feast of the Holy Family https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/122924.cfm Good evening / morning, St. Agnes, Merry Christmas and happy Feast of the Holy Family. My maternal grandmother, Barbara Emrich, grew up in the Highlands. She and her family lived in a little house on Princeton Dr. not far from where Bellarmine University is now. Her father, Joe Emrich, was a railroad man, working for the old Louisville & Nashville or L&N company. Her mother, Nona, stayed at home and raised 9 children. There were five boys and four girls in the Emrich family. They were a deeply Catholic German family; two of the sons became priests and one of the daughters an Ursuline nun. They embodied, in a way, an old model of what a Catholic family looked like. In that little house, the boys had one bedroom and the girls another and they shared one, solitary bathroom. My grandmother was the baby of the fam...
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."