First Sunday after Easter
† Brothers and sisters of StME, on this first Sunday after Easter, I have a quandary that concerns me greatly! That quandary is familiarity and casualness – casualness...
Easter Sunday
† An early 20th-century philosopher-poet, seeing the end of her days rapidly approaching, asked a friend, “What is the answer?” She reasoned, that if there was no answer,...
Easter Even
† The foreword of the Easter Even service, as set out in our bulletin tonight, reads, ‘The office is exceedingly ancient, extending back to the earliest days of...
Maundy Thursday
† In our Epistle Lesson for today’s Eucharistic Feast, St. Paul recapitulates or ‘goes over the main points again’, the purposes of JESUS’ institution of the blessed Holy...
Palm Sunday
† On the first Palm Sunday, even though it would appear that the people of Jerusalem overwhelming sided with JESUS being their Messiah and King, by Friday of...
Fifth Sunday in Lent
† On the Jewish calendar, the 14th day of Abib is one of most important days. It is the day and month that the Jewish people remember and...
Fourth (Mothering) Sunday in Lent
† Mothering Sunday claims its name from a medieval tradition that is believed to have started around 1200 A.D. The tradition was for members of the faithful to...