When I saw her sweet, tender smile, it was as if everything was fine. I looked through the screen of the memory care unit and I just smiled back at Mama as I pulled out my guitar to begin singing. As ...

One of the grand old hymns of the faith is “Shall We Gather at the River?” written by Robert Lowery in 1864. That is exactly what a large crowd did Sunday afternoon, June 28, gathering on the bank of ...

My boss asked me the other day if I knew anything about the hymn “Faith of Our Fathers.” Since I have been an organist in the Catholic Church for about 25 years now, I must have played the hymn dozens ...

As far back as the 18 th century, German monks brewed and drank beer during the solemn religious observance of Lent, which is the six weeks that leads up to Easter Sunday. Arthur Guinness, who was the ...