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†    It is very meet and right on this feast of all the saints of GOD in the Church, to recall the names of those Saints who have preceded us into Glory, and to pray that the LORD GOD will allow us to ‘follow their good examples, so that with them, we might be partakers…

†    If we have been walking with our fellow Anglicans, faithfully through the 1928 Book of Common Prayer Lectionary for the Daily Offices, we will know that during these latter weeks of Trinitytide, important readings from Job have been recommended to us. — In one of those readings, GOD ALMIGHTY says, “[Job], my servant ……

†    Today’s Prayer Book Feast Day is dedicated to focusing on and honoring the work and ministry of St. Luke the Evangelist. An evangelist is someone called by GOD to preach the full message of Christ’s salvation – the whole of the Good News of GOD – the Gospel. So confident and meticulous was Luke…

†    In St. Paul’s urging of the church in Ephesians 4.1-3, to “walk worthy of the calling with which you were called, with all lowliness and gentleness, with longsuffering, bearing with one another in love, and endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace,” the Apostle, the one ‘born out…

†    To the best of our understanding, the celebration of the Feast of St. Michael and All Angels is historically dated to the fifth century A.D. and was “especially popular in medieval England. The institution of the feast goes back to when a basilica was dedicated to St. Michael on the Via Salaria, a little…

Why do we celebrate feast days? We do so out of reverence – reverence like we pay to those who have died in service to our country, or reverence for those who have served our country in some significant way. And yet, it is something more. We don’t worship the Saints, but we do hold…

†    JESUS begins today’s Gospel Lesson with an obvious fact, but one of which we are significantly challenged to adhere to in our Christian lives of faith. The LORD says, “No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the…

†    It has become a ‘driving’ joke around here (pun intended), that I often harp about the speed limit and the blatant neglect for safety that I see (just ask me, I can tell you some stories) when I drive north and south on I-35, to and from Waxahachie. My harping is certainly a reflection…

†    Let us begin by clarifying a theological truth, understood throughout the Pauline Epistles, as it relates to who are ‘of Abraham’ and who are not. Paul says in Galatians 3.16, “Now to Abraham and his Seed were the promises made. He does not say, ‘And to seeds,’ as of many, but as of one,…

†    What is the answer to the theological mystery and spiritual purpose of JESUS’ healing of the non-communicative man (a deaf-mute) in today’s Gospel Lesson from St. Mark seven? What are we to draw from it for our Christian lives?    The principal matter to keep in mind is that JESUS did not perform miracles as…