It’s intimidating to stand here and preach about something that’s difficult to explain. Do people expect me to “explain” the subject of today’s feast? Am I expected to explain the Trinity? St. Augustine’s book “The Trinity”, was called by some his masterpiece. He said he spent years writing 15 books concerning the Trinity. Not even…
1st Sunday of Lent – Yr A Feb. 29-March 1, 2020 by Kevin Williams Matthew 4:1-11 If you ever want to make a good contrast between us mere mortal humans and the human Jesus, a good place to start might be today’s first reading and today’s gospel. Imagine living in the Garden of Eden. Literally,…
In today’s Gospel, we hear John the Baptist clarifying what he meant when he told the priests and Levites, “There is one among you whom you do not recognize”. There is a shift today. Until now we have been focusing on John, Jesus’ precursor. Now the gospel, through the Baptist’s testimony, passes us from John…
In the modern world, especially in the Western world, it really doesn’t matter too much what you name your newborn child, or how you go about naming the baby – as long as it sounds contemporary fashionable. …
Today is the solemnity of “Mary, Mother of God.” Our church’s veneration of Mary goes back to our beginnings. At Christmas we celebrate the Word of God made flesh. Today we celebrate God blessing us through Mary, who was the means by which that Word took flesh among us. Through Mary we came to experience…
Four days to Christmas. All around us, children’s spirits are bursting with joyful anticipation, lively hopes and unbounded expectation. They dream visions of reindeer and elves, Nintendo and Xbox. And where are our spirits? And what are our dreams on this last Sunday of Advent? Do we have the spirit of Ahaz, or the spirit…
Matthew 3:1-12 There is an unmistakable theme in today’s readings. The theme that we hear is people prophesying about the Messiah. It starts in Isaiah, when we hear the prophet proclaiming that one day the Spirit of the Lord would rest on a man who came from the stump of Jesse. The people listening to…
Luke 17: 11-19 – Healing of 10 Lepers Nowhere in the scriptures is it written that Jesus raised a skeleton back to life, but the Son of God did raise 3 others who had died back to life: the daughter of Jrius, the synagogue administrator; the son of the grieving widow of Naim; and Lazarus…