Randy Coleman-Riese

18Feb

A Presidential Lenten Valentine…

February 18, 2024 Randy Coleman-Riese

This month provides a number of themes for reflection, our national holiday honoring Presidents (specifically the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln...

25Aug

August 25, 2023 Randy Coleman-Riese

For anyone wanting a thorough overview of how the Western world has progressed in the last few centuries I recommend...

28Jun

June 28, 2023 Randy Coleman-Riese

Tom Waits’ 1973 song, Grapefruit Moon, was one of the favorites of my friend Geoff Wood who recently passed into...

16May

May 16, 2023 Randy Coleman-Riese

But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon...

07Apr

April 7, 2023 Randy Coleman-Riese

Peter, going out, wept bitterly

06Apr

April 6, 2023 Randy Coleman-Riese

Traveling the path of Holy Week we enter into the Triduum and its mysteries. Our friend Vonn Hartung has by...

17Mar

March 17, 2023 Randy Coleman-Riese

08Mar

March 8, 2023 Randy Coleman-Riese

Perpetual Felicity We recently (March 7th) celebrated the memorial of Sts. Purpetua and Felicity, two young women, one a noblewoman...

31Dec

December 31, 2022 Randy Coleman-Riese

I was received into the Roman Catholic Church at Easter 2006. I was 54 years old. My decision to become...

29Dec

December 29, 2022 Randy Coleman-Riese

In the mid 1970’s Walker Percy published a series of essays which he had written over the years in a...