text 13th Sunday of the Year: Choosing Life Today’s liturgical celebration finds us caught in turbulent wake of the controversial and split…
text Solemnity of Corpus Christi: 19 June 2022 – This Holy Banquet In recent years, the Eucharist has become controversial – not in the sense that the real presence…
text Feast of the Holy Trinity: The Mystery of Mysteries Today’s celebration of the Feast of the Holy Trinity falls outside the Easter season, but in…
text Pentecost: Come Holy Spirit This year, the great celebration of Pentecost occurs in a world fraught with anxiety and hurt,…
text Feast of the Ascension 2022: Transit to Glory Christians in many parts of the world are celebrating the Feast of the Ascension of Jesus, deferred…
text Sixth Sunday of Easter 2022: The End of All Fears Today, many Christians around the world will be anticipating the great Feast of the Ascension of…
text Fifth Sunday of Easter 2022: The Name of Waiting The events of past few days remind us, tearfully, that the world is in greater need than ever of…
text Fourth Sunday of Easter 2022: God’s Motherly Embrace Today the celebration of Mothers’ Day in the United States and elsewhere comes as a welcome respite…
text Third Sunday of Easter 1 May 2022 — Transformations Today’s readings are about transformations. Some symbolically involve animals, such as fish and…
text Second Sunday of Easter – Divine Mercy… and Ours Today is the Feast of the Resurrection for millions of Orthodox Christians throughout the world,…
text Easter Morning 2022 – The Risen Son This year the day on which we commemorate the resurrection of Jesus is marked by turmoil, war, and…
text Palm Sunday 2022: The Mystery of Salvation Today, Christians around the world begin the holiest week of the year in which we recall the final…
text Fifth Sunday of Lent 2022: Matters of Perspective Now with the fifth Sunday of our Lenten pilgrimage at hand, the goal of the journey approaches even…
text 4th Sunday of Lent 2022: Truth and Reconciliation Years past, today was known as Laetare Sunday, from the first Latin word of the entrance song, …
text Third Sunday of Lent 2022: War and Remembrance We so easily forget… At the very beginning of Lent, one of the less cheery blessings on Ash…
text Second Sunday of Lent 2022: Sacrifice, Hope, and Transfiguration The Episcopalian communion observes Transfiguration Sunday just before the beginning of Lent, while…
text 1st Sunday of Lent C: 6 March 2022: Time of Trial We begin our Lenten pilgrimage this year all-too conscious of the great suffering being inflicted…
text 8th Sunday of the year: The First Casualty of War In July 1783, after the cessation of war between the American colonies and England, Benjamin…
text 7th Sunday of the Year: Blessed are the Merciful Biblical scholars have quibbled for centuries about the identities of the famed “Four Horsemen of…
text 6th Sunday of the Year: True Blessedness Beginning in 1991, I taught courses in dreams, spirituality, and memory for graduates and…
text 5th Sunday of the Year: The Call February is Black History month. At this fraught moment in our nation’s story, today’s readings…
text 4th Sunday of the Year: The Price of Prophecy [The following is substantially a homily I preached in 2019; there isn’t much I felt needed…
text 3rd Sunday of the Year: United We Stand To say that we live in fraught times is an understatement, but may be our lot for some time to come…
text Second Sunday of the Year: Abundant Gifts At first glance, today’s readings seem to have little if any connection. The gospel account of the…
