Author Archives: rjfrog

Matthew 5: 21-37. Sigh.  Do I really have to preach on this reading again this year?  This isn’t exactly my favorite reading because, quite honestly, it makes me uncomfortable.  Jesus seems to be hold some pretty high standards for moral behavior that are hard to measure up to, and I often walk away from thisContinue reading “VMP Sermon 12. Right Things, Wrong Reasons”

Moving can be a pain in the butt.  I have moved myself and other people enough times over the years that I am well familiar with just how tedious and overwhelming the moving process can be – all of the pre-sorting and organizing, deciding what to take and what to give away, what can beContinue reading “VMP sermon 11 – Begin with Wow.”

Mark 2 21-22 “No One sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. Otherwise, the new piece will pull away from the old, making the tear worse. 22 And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the wine will burst the skins, and both the wine and the wineskins will be ruined.Continue reading “Of Wineskins and Computer Programs”

Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken. — Oscar Wilde. This is the first post on my new blog. I’m just getting this new blog going, so stay tuned for more. Subscribe below to get notified when I post new updates.

Hello.  My name is Ryan O’Rourke and as of this writing I am a board certified Catholic Lay chaplain who has spent the majority of my ministerial career in eldercare. From a very early age I was interested in all things spiritual.  By the time I was a teenager and suffering from the thousand naturalContinue reading “Who am I?”