July 12, 2026 Trinity 6 Everybody knows about the Nobel Prizes, given each year in categories including physics, chemistry, medicine and economic sciences. But how about the “IG Nobels”? This set of awards is given for scientific research that “makes people laugh, then think.” As the word “ignoble” suggests, these awards are not particularly honorable. They carry much less social status than the lofty Nobel Prizes. (The Nobel Peace Prize that was coveted so much by “You-know-

July 5, 2026 The Fifth Sunday after Trinity St. Juniperro Serra On a sunny Saturday last year at Wimbledon, Centre Court had the pleasant buzz of a summer outing — the kind where spectators sip Pimm’s, nibble strawberries drowned in champagne, and pretend they are simply out for a gentle afternoon rather than watching world-class athletes battle nerves and destiny. Amanda Anisimova — young, immensely talented and having just played the match of her life, beating top-ranked Ar

June 28, 2026 Trinity IV You are staring at a frozen computer screen. Nothing happens, no matter how many times you click the mouse or how hard you bang on the keyboard. But, before you pick up the machine and take it to the trash in the fit of a temper tantrum, you move on to the last-ditch solution: reboot. Rebooting is what you do when something goes deeply wrong — with either your machine or one of its key programs. You probably had to learn how to reboot a computer at s