I have been thinking about Ecclesiastes 3 a good bit lately. “There is an appointed time for everything...a time to be born, and a time to die...a time to keep and a time to lose.” This meditation was occasioned by the illness of my older...
Thursday, November 21, 20130447Before 1960 I had only vaguely heard about a Massachusetts senator named John Fitzgerald Kennedy. However his was only one name among many politicians; but then...
Every day there are connections in our lives with the illnesses, with the deaths, with the triumphs of other people. These folks might be our family or our neighbors or...Father Timothy Gollob
Soon the feast day of St. Francis of Assisi will be upon us. Many people view this saint to be a patron of nature and of human cooperation in preserving the natural...
Tuesday, September 17, 20130150I have to admit that the current pope has done some impressive things during this first year of his leadership. It seems that nearly every day some article or some photo...
A while ago, I think it was 1951, I was in the graduating class of Tyler High School. We went through all the pomp and circumstance of graduation. Our valedictorian said...Father Timothy Gollob
There are times during Mass when the choir is holding forth with a beautiful hymn that I find myself thinking out of the box of the sanctuary. Such a musing took place...Father Timothy Gollob
By Father Timothy Gollob
Special to The Texas Catholic
It seemed that I was in paradise.
As Bill and I bounced across the Ellis County ranch in a four-wheel...Father Timothy Gollob
Pope Benedict XVI is retired, but not gone. The rumor has it that he is somewhere in the Vatican enjoying prayer, study and relaxation. The man deserves all three.Father Timothy Gollob
