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†   The world is not so sideways in its luck as people say; there still are futures of a healthful gain; rain still rains.   Lichens droop from spruces, wizard-gray; there…

†   As we discussed last Sunday, St. Augustine divides things into the real and the unreal with his description of two very different spiritual cities: The City of GOD and the Earthly…

†   “For by whom a person is overcome, by him also he is brought into bondage…” (2 Peter 2.19). The spiritual question for us today, St. Mark’s, is this: Will we…

†   Might we be so bold to make an attempt to contemplate, with some sense of real understanding, the Eternal GOD who Isaiah witnesses the heavenly host calling the Thrice Holy One? — In…

†   “As brothers of the Son of Man, rise up, O men of GOD! Have done with lesser things.”1 – These are the timeless and distinguished words of the hymnist, William…

†   In his effort to rediscover beauty, after believing he had been given a new lease on life, having shed the graveclothes of the arranged vocation that his parents had…

†   The Church is on the cusp of one of the most exciting feast days for the ‘populum’, the people, and certainly for us Gentiles. Pentecost was the Day, fifty…

†  Why is the Feast Day of the Ascension so important, as well as worthy of Holy Mother Church’s faithful observance? — As we heard in our Epistle and Gospel…

†   The Anglican Book of Homilies, in ‘The Sermon concerning Prayer,’ begins thus: “There is nothing in all man’s life, well beloved in our Savior Christ, so needful spoken of,…

†   St. James, in his Epistle, writes a line of such proverbial wisdom that unless we take it in context, we would think it only a flowery sentiment about the…