Ut Aliis Tradere

One of the biggest and longest-running fistfights among Christians is centered around today's Gospel (Mt. 16.13-20), where Our Lord tells...

My home parish is dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary. A side effect of the English Reformation is a lot of the Marian feasts and...

I had this year started binging on "The Chosen", the Amazon Prime series about the lives of Jesus and His disciples. I had held off...

[Sermon delivered for Solemn Morning Prayer at St. Mary's Episcopal Church, Phoenix, Arizona on the Feast of the Transfiguration, August...

[Sermon delivered at St. Mary's Episcopal Church at Solemn Morning Prayer, the Ninth Sunday after Pentecost, July 30, 2023] ✠ In the Name...

One of the more uncomfortable things in this day and age is the concept of judgement. I have often heard, "How can a loving God judge?...

[Sermon delivered at St. Mary's Episcopal Church at Solemn Morning Prayer, the Seventh Sunday after Pentecost, July 16, 2023] ✠ In the...

"We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we wailed, and you did not mourn.’ - St. Matthew 11.17 So do you want fire and...

Today's Gospel reading for Mass is quite short; yawn once and you miss half of it (don't believe me? Check it here). It is short, but...

[Sermon prepared for the Fourth Sunday after Pentecost, June 25, 2023, at St. Mary the Virgin Episcopal Church, Phoenix, Arizona] ✠ In...

Any student of the Judaeo-Christian Bible, including what is known as the deutero-canonical or apocryphal books of the Old Testament,...

The Episcopal Church, where I make my spiritual home, has moved into the cycle of ordinary time, and for today's Gospel highlight's the...

This year I got off easy...the peril of an associate homilist or preacher in the Western liturgical churches is that quite frequently the...

[Sermon delivered at St. Mary's Episcopal Church, Phoenix, Arizona, Pentecost, May 28, 2023] ✠ In the Name of the Father, and of the Son,...

"Holy Father, protect them in your name that you have given me, so that they may be one, as we are one." (Jn. 17.11) This verse gets...