C35: The Tenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year C (2016)
June 20, 2016
“Is there anything more intimate than to hear the heartbeat of another person?…Can human beings desire anything more than to be held so close and know that they are so loved?” says Father Michael Renninger,...
C40: The Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost, Year C (2016)
June 20, 2016
“Imagine that your new pastor shows up disguised as a homeless man with a ‘Duck Dynasty’ kind of beard and a matching T-shirt…wearing old shorts that have holes in them, and if you got too...
C22: The Fifth Sunday of Easter, Year C (2016)
April 12, 2016
After several painful meetings in which the new leadership at the monastery where I was living gave me long lists of why I would never be a good priest, I asked the newest leader the...
C12: The First Sunday in Lent, Year C (2016)
February 14, 2016
On this first Sunday of Lent, Father Michael Renninger, Pastor of St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Richmond, Virginia, asks a thought-provoking question. He tells of watching a panel of political analysts discussing candidates. Renninger asks,...
C10: The Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany, Year C (2016)
January 31, 2016
“Don’t you dare leave! Sometimes love looks like this!” Michael Renninger’s grandmother told him, as his paralyzed grandfather lay in bed covered in “green goop” from his feeding tube. This scene taught Renninger a lesson...