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To Treasure Revelation
There are three words that jump out at me from our Gospel reading for today's feast: "haste," "astonished" and "treasured." Each one says something i…
9 years, 4 months ago
Christ-Mass
Our Gospel for Christmas day is, of course, one of the most famous texts in the entire Bible: the Prologue to the Gospel of John. In many ways, it is…
9 years, 4 months ago
History is Going Somewhere, And It Rhymes
As the Advent season comes to its climax, we are reminded that all of time and history comes to a kind of fulfillment in the Messiah. All of the stra…
9 years, 5 months ago
“Tell John What You See and Hear”
Our Gospel for this weekend is taken from the eleventh chapter of the Gospel of Matthew, where John the Baptist has been arrested and wonders from hi…
9 years, 5 months ago
Eden, The Mountain, and The One Who Baptizes with Fire
This week's readings take us to chapter 11 of the prophet Isaiah. Isaiah looks back to the garden of Eden and the world in right alignment with God, …
9 years, 5 months ago
The Mountain of the Lord
This week we enter into the great season of Advent. Our first reading from the prophet Isaiah describes how every nation streams towards God's holy m…
9 years, 5 months ago
Three Aspects of Christ’s Kingship
We celebrate, as the very last Sunday of the liturgical year, the Solemnity of Christ the King. Think perhaps of the way that a king would come last …
9 years, 6 months ago
The Love of Predilection
In Luke's Gospel we read the story of Jesus and Zacchaeus. Zacchaeus, as chief tax collector, was considered a very bad man in first century Israel, …
9 years, 6 months ago
Prayer and Pride
The entire point of religion is to make us humble before God and to open us to the path of love. Everything else is more or less a footnote. Liturgy…
9 years, 6 months ago
The Integrated and Variegated Body of Christ
Our first reading from the book of Exodus is illuminating at so many levels. On the surface, this is a report of an ancient war, more of a tribal dis…
9 years, 7 months ago