HOMILY FOR FRIDAY OF THE FOURTH WEEK OF EASTER 2017 DEACON ANDREW THOMAS Anybody know who Walt Disney is? What famous cartoon character did he create? This year, the Walt Disney of video games died at the age of 91. He was a Japanese man by the name of Masaya Nakamura. Do you know what video game he created? It’s the most popular coin operated game of all time? Pac Man. When I was younger, the video game that everyone played was Pac Man. In Pac Man the object of the game i

HOMILY FOR FEAST OF SAINTS PHILIP AND JAMES 2017 DEACON ANDREW THOMAS Yesterday we had the following words to contemplate from St. Athanasius, “God became man, so that man might become God.” Today we have the following words from Jesus to His apostle, Phillip, “I am in the Father, and the Father is in me. If you know me, you also know the Father." The technical word for this theology is called “Theosis," which literally means, "becoming God." It is the process that takes plac

HOMILY FOR THIRD SUNDAY OF EASTER 2017 DEACON ANDREW THOMAS In our modern society, we are products of a period called the scientific revolution, lasting from 1550-1700. It was charged with excitement about what could be known and predicted in the physical sciences, and biological sciences. Many breakthroughs took place in physical science, such as the Nicolaus Copernicus’s heliocentric theory - the theory that it's actually the earth that revolves around the sun and not the s