Ut Aliis Tradere

For centuries the Octave Day of Christmas (the one-week mark or eighth day), January 1, was marked as the Feast of the Circumcision. The...

Christmas sentimentality is all around us, with "Peace on Earth" and "Joy to the World" ringing in the rafters, often met with warm...

If we have been paying attention (granted, our society is quite attention deficit and hyperactive, so this may be asking a bit much), we...

[Sermon for Gaudete Sunday (III Advent Roman/VI Advent "Ancient"), December 11, 2022, at St. Mary's Episcopal Church, Phoenix, Arizona.]...

A couple of years ago I had the opportunity to talk with a Mandaean. These people are also called "John the Baptist Christians" and are a...

So today it is either the First, or Third, or even Fourth Sunday of Advent depending on what Rite one is following .(If that confused...

[Sermon delivered at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, Phoenix, Arizona on the Feast of Christ the King, the Twenty-Fourth Sunday after...

I read an article a few weeks ago (something posted on LinkedIn, I think) which claimed that Westerners in general have been for some...

When I started going to the parish I now call home, I was surprised that unlike other Western churches this parish, at odds with other...

"Now concerning those bishops which have been ordained in our lifetime, we let you know that they are these: … Of Caesarea of Palestine,...

Sometimes I get the feeling that Our Lord had a soft spot in His heart for tax collectors. God knows, no one else did...or does...or ever...

[Sermon delivered at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, Phoenix, Arizona on the Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost, October 16, 2022] ✠ In the...

Thank you notes are a dying art. Truth be told, with the cultural shift away from letters and notes posted in the mail, one is more...

Many churches today read at Mass the section from Luke's Gospel (Lk. 17.5-10) where Jesus says two things: If you have a tiny tiny...

We all know the plot line. The grief-stricken widow, totally adrift with no idea what to do, hires a medium to contact her dearly...