A Positively Poetic Priest

"He only says, "Good fences make good neighbours." Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonder If I could put a notion in his head: "Why do they make good neighbours? Isn't it Where there are cows? But here there are no cows. Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, and to whom I was like to give offense." This is a portion of Robert Frost's poem, Mending Wall.  The poem talks about mending a wall in the spring with the neighbor on the other side.  It goes through how the wall fell apart, and as we heard, we hear him wonder about why there is a wall in the first place. The only thing the neighbor says in the poem is "Good fences make good neighbours." But Frost brings up a good question in these lines why do good fences make good neighbors why build a wall is it because you're walling something in or walling something out? It seems that there are good walls,...

Easter Sunday Sermon Stone Three years ago this May, I spent three weeks traveling and studying in the Holy Land. Every day was packed full with visiting places throughout Israel, my classmates and I had adventures to the tune of singing Christmas carols in the caves where Jesus may have been born in Bethlehem, drinking from Jacob’s well where Jesus talked with the Syrophoenician woman, swimming in the Sea of Galilee, renewing our baptismal vows in the Jordan River, taking time to walk across the barren hills of the Judean wilderness, and walking the stations of the Via Dolorosa, the way through Jerusalem Jesus is believed to have walked on the way to his crucifixion. On one of our action packed days we experienced an unplanned stop at the border wall separating the Israelis and the Palestinians. The guards went through our tour bus, checking all of our passports, asking a few of the group to get out and check through personal items. We waited there for a while, with the ...