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First Sunday after Ascension
† 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…
Read MoreFeast of the Ascension
† 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…
Read MoreRogation Sunday
† 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,…
Read MoreFourth Sunday after Easter
† 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…
Read MoreThird Sunday in Easter
† Obstinate to Christian: “What are the things that thou seek, since you leave all the world to find them?” — Christian responds: “I seek a place incorruptible, one that…
Read MoreSecond Sunday in Easter
† In the second and third centuries A.D., when Christians were suffering fierce persecutions at the hands of the Romans, it was the image of JESUS as a shepherd that…
Read MoreEaster One Sunday
† On Easter Sunday, we discussed the reasons why the Holy Scriptures are trustworthy and reliable. Such dependability is necessary, not only for the Bible to make the claims that…
Read MoreEaster Sunday
† Upon asking if GOD exists, I doubt that responding with François-Marie Arouet’s quip would satisfy a curious child on the matter. Better known as the French Enlightenment philosopher, Voltaire,…
Read MoreMaundy Thursday
† In our Epistle Lesson for this evening, St. Paul explains to the church in Corinth the purpose of the blessed Holy Eucharist, which Christ JESUS instituted the night before…
Read MorePalm Sunday
† An erudite biblical commentator and scholar has brilliantly noticed a great conundrum in the Church, and that is this. There is a division amongst the professing Christian society “into…
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