Feast of St. Michael and All Angels
† 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...
Eve of the Feast of St. Michael and All Angels
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...
Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity
† 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...
Feast of St. Matthew/Trinity Fourteen Sunday
† 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...
Thirteenth Sunday after Trinity
† 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...
Twelfth Sunday after Trinity
† 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...
Eleventh Sunday after Trinity
† In JESUS’ parable that we just read from St. Luke 18, we are made to imagine how two men came to the Temple to pray. JESUS’ parable...