Tag Archives: Father Dan Begin

Loving Bunches

Posted on May 20, 2020 by Kathy

Anyone who knew Father Dan Begin knows why I bought this bottle of wine. I buy wine infrequently, and this bottle cost more money than I usually spend, but I couldn’t pass it up. Father Dan’s habitual closing line to … Continue reading →

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Giving up Control

Posted on April 9, 2020 by Kathy

Turns out Lead Me, Guide Me: The Life and Example of Father Dan Begin will probably appear ahead of schedule. In the next few weeks, in fact. Because there’s no chance for a launch party or public readings in the near future … Continue reading →

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A Timely Return

Posted on March 26, 2020 by Kathy

This seems like a good time to resurrect the blog. Lead Me, Guide Me, a memoir about Father Dan Begin, is tentatively planned for publication in June, and the vagaries of the coronavirus won’t, we hope, get in the way. The blog serves … Continue reading →

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Because He Lives

Posted on August 20, 2017 by Kathy

I have some tapes from Masses at St. Cecilia’s, my old church. Tonight I felt like hearing a random sermon from Father Dan. I guess you can’t say picking out an Easter Mass qualifies as random, exactly, but let’s say the … Continue reading →

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Father Dan’s Funeral Sermon

Posted on August 6, 2017 by Kathy

When I mention that Father Dan wrote the sermon for his own funeral Mass, people are sometimes taken aback–people, that is, who didn’t know him. “Wouldn’t somebody else have liked to say something?” one of them asked me, implying that … Continue reading →

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Welcoming the Stranger

Posted on April 9, 2017 by Kathy

One of the most noteworthy things about Father Dan Begin was that his words and his actions were almost perfectly in sync. This quality made his sermons especially powerful; if you knew him, you could hear his advice and immediately … Continue reading →

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Father Dan on Grieving

Posted on March 6, 2017 by Kathy

Father Dan delivered this homily on Palm Sunday, March 23, 2009, the week after Bishop Richard Lennon announced the closing of his churches, St. Cecilia and Epiphany.   I think as we watch Jesus struggle, it affirms in us that … Continue reading →

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Exuberance Is Beauty

Posted on March 1, 2017 by Kathy

Father Dan Begin and I never talked about William Blake, the English Romantic poet, which may sound pretentious, but we were two old English majors who enjoyed hauling out our tattered copies of the Norton Anthology of English Literature on … Continue reading →

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How to Be Happy, Redux

Posted on February 23, 2017 by Kathy

4000 readers and counting have read Monday’s post about Father Dan. As I posted on Facebook, I can now conclude that people find Father Dan more interesting than borderline personality. Just to provide perspective: I might get around 50 hits on … Continue reading →

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Father Dan Once Again

Posted on February 20, 2017 by Kathy

Saturday morning my friend and pastor Dan Begin died at the home of his sister Donna. This is very hard for everyone who knew him, but he chose—and I emphasize chose—to ease the way for us all by his attitude … Continue reading →

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