khomansj

All posts by Ken Homan, SJ

Ken Homan is a Jesuit brother from the Midwest Province. He is currently working on a doctorate in history at Georgetown University where he is a graduate assistant for the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor.

Joined in 2013   /   63 posts   /   khomansj@thejesuitpost.org

“You’re just like your dad…”

“You’re just like your dad…”

I knelt in the front pew, watching the rest of the congregation pass by to receive Communion. I had spent a majority of the Mass quietly crying off-and-on. As my dad walked by, he smiled and warmly patted me on the cheek, tears running down his own face. I felt as if...