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Today at Mass we today hear readings about baptism. The lesson from Genesis talks of the moving of the Spirit upon the waters, the...

One of our choices (there are three today!) for the Gospel reading for Mass is the story of the Flight to Egypt and the Slaughter of the...

Until the fashion came about to rank all Sundays ahead of major feast days, today would have been celebrated as the Feast of St. John the...

I once saw a music video by the group Siouxsie and the Banshees performing the French Christmas Carol Il est né, le Divin Enfant. ...

[Sermon composed for the Sunday broadcast at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, Phoenix AZ (https://www.stmarysphoenix.org/online) for Sunday,...

When I was in college at the University of New Brunswick I had opportunity to sing with the choir of Christ Church Cathedral, and one of...

Earlier this year the Bible Study group at our parish finished an extended march through the Book of the Prophet Isaiah. This is NOT an...

Many Evangelical and Charismatic Christian denominations make much about the second coming of Christ. It pervades their media, their...

[Sermon preached at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, Phoenix AZ (https://www.stmarysphoenix.org/online) for Sunday, November 22, 2020, the...

Many Christians and those influenced by North American Christian culture have an existential dread called variously the Day of the Lord,...

Normally my comments are about the day's Gospel, but today I wish to turn our attention to the Epistle (1 Thes. 4.13-18). In the West,...

We've all heard it. Someone or another, undergoing some arduous and to all onlookers unnecessary tribulation gets accused of "bucking...

Jesus had to put up with a lot of challenges to His teaching. Not only was He constantly badgered about His credentials, He also...

[Sermon composed for the Sunday broadcast at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, Phoenix AZ (https://www.stmarysphoenix.org/online) for Sunday,...

Jesus loved to use parables. A good storyteller knows how to grab an audience, keep their attention, and get the message across, whether...