Put On Your Apron and Serve
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) Next time you go out to eat, be sure to tip your wait person generously. They represent a highly respected tradition in our early church. Some early waiters are our…
Sympathetic Saints Ease the Squeeze at the Narrow Gate
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) Pain. We’re born in it then run from it for the rest of our lives. Sin itself is pain, and in Sunday’s first reading (Acts 2:14a, 36-41), Peter forces an…
Love, Like Christ, Must be Lived to Be Seen
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) King David was guilty of many serious sins, topped off by murder and adultery. One might even read into his psalms a hint of ego, as he seeks constant justification…
Speak the Prayer of Your Life
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) Lately, political extremists have been using sacramentals to push their agendas. Apparently, with the far right it’s rosaries and with the far left it’s the secular sacrament of sports. Recently…
The Unvarnished, Unleavened Truth of Easter
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) Christ’s disciples displayed the equivalent of Artificial Intelligence after their Master’s death and resurrection. Their heads were full of the information he gave them, but they had little understanding of…
The Reading of God’s Will
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) Nobody who draws up a will or a Family Trust likes surprises. The Guarantor of the will to which all faithful souls are beneficiaries made sure each provision of it…
All In One, One In All
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) “When I open your graves and have you rise from them, O my people! I will put my spirit in you that you may live.” (Ezekiel 37:12-14) This is how the…
Do You See What God Sees in You?
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) “Then Samuel, with the horn of oil in hand, anointed David in the presence of his brothers; and from that day on, the spirit of the LORD rushed upon David.” (1 Samuel…
Satisfying God’s Eternal Thirst
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of the one who sent me and to finish his work.” That’s what Jesus tells his disciples in this…
Take Part in God’s Transfiguration
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) This Sunday’s readings look forward to the promise of Jesus, just as the entire season of Lent does. The appearance of Moses and Elijah alongside Jesus during his transfiguration in…