Foot-washer

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...

https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/122520-mass-at-night.cfm In the first reading tonight, we hear a very familiar passage from the prophet Isaiah proclaimed: “The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light… for a child is born to us, a son is given to us. Upon his shoulder dominion rests. They name him Wonder-Counselor, God-Hero, Father-Forever, Prince of Peace.” Six years ago at midnight mass, I heard these words while sitting in the pews. My wife, Kate, and I went with my family to Holy Trinity parish. I remember it vividly because ten days before the two of us had found out that she was pregnant. Our Christmas Eve was in that electric time when no one else, only she and I knew the secret: a great joy had just entered into the world. Holy Trinity that night was jammed packed. So full that we sat in overflow seating in a separate section of the church with no view of the altar and with the audio piped into our room. That suited us fine because she needed to sit clo...