Fr. Mark Hamlet

Feast of the Holy Family – 2010

Fr. Mark Hamlet — Sun, 26 Dec 2010 08:00:28 +0000

For the sake of our visitors, and to avoid scandal allow me to share again that I was married for 37 years. My wife and I have six children and I have twelve grandchildren. Cynthia passed away a few years ago, and I later went to the seminary. When Cynthia and I were dating and […]

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We are Christmas People

Fr. Mark Hamlet — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 14:00:34 +0000

Catholic Christians claim our faith and mature in our faith by repeating the truths of our faith over and over again, year in, year out. If we don’t repeat these truths, as children and young adults, and older adults, we lose our grasp of them; we lose the clarity. Worse, others don’t hear them. But […]

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Immaculate Conception 2010

Fr. Mark Hamlet — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 08:00:48 +0000

There is an ancient prayer of the Church known as “Alma Redemptoris Mater”. It goes like this: Loving Mother of the Redeemer, gate of heaven, star of the sea, assist your people who have fallen yet strive to rise again. To the wonderment of nature you bore your Creator, yet remained a virgin as before. […]

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About False Prophets

Fr. Mark Hamlet — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 08:00:43 +0000

Jesus warns us about false prophets and false messiahs. Once I met the “Messiah”. At least he claimed to be the “Messiah”. We had interesting conversations, inspired largely by his curiosity about the end times and the “rapture”. He assured me that the end of the world will come on December 12th, 2012. Scripture is […]

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Memorial of St. Martin of Tours

Fr. Mark Hamlet — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 08:00:28 +0000

Remembering is required of Christians. Perhaps one of the main struggles that God had with the Israelites was that they didn’t want to remember Him. They didn’t want to be indebted to God for all He had done for them. Remembering brings responsibilities. If you remember, you have to do something. Like showing gratitude and […]

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Being a Non-person

Fr. Mark Hamlet — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 08:00:50 +0000

Gentiles had no real recognition within Israelite society. They were pagans. While they were to be accorded decent treatment, they were always in a subordinate, even marginal position. Leprosy is a serious disease in which results is serious skin lesions and deformities. A leper was considered unclean and was barred from any contact with the […]

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Memorial of Guardian Angels

Fr. Mark Hamlet — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 08:00:22 +0000

Most of you know that I was married and a permanent deacon before going to the seminary and becoming a priest. When my wife, Cynthia, was a patient at MD Anderson Cancer Hospital a few years ago, the nun who founded the chaplain program there, Sister Alice Potts, came daily to minister to her. Over […]

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Prodigal Son

Fr. Mark Hamlet — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 08:00:36 +0000

In the Confessional I have encountered the most awesome experiences of God. In the Sacrament of Reconciliation there is conversion happening some people’s lives, sometimes more than others. Once in a while someone comes to Confession who has not been to Church or Confession in years. That doesn’t happen without God being very active in […]

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The Feast of the Assumption 2010

Fr. Mark Hamlet — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 08:00:14 +0000

From the earliest centuries of the Church, the Assumption into Heaven of the Blessed Virgin Mary, body and soul, has been a subject of veneration and Christian doctrine. However, there is no direct biblical source for this belief. There is no historical record. We don’t know the time or the place of the end of […]

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Stop Stealing Paperclips!

Fr. Mark Hamlet — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 13:00:36 +0000

When I was a permanent deacon men would ask me a certain question with some frequency. When I was working with men’s groups in my parish they would ask me this question. They knew that I was still working in my business career, like most of them. Men with whom I worked in business would […]

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