Ut Aliis Tradere

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...

A feeback loop is a process where output of a system at least partially is used as input to the same system to keep it running and to...

[Sermon for St. Mary's Episcopal Church, Phoenix, Arizona, the Fifth Sunday of Easter, May 7, 2023] ✠ In the Name of the Father, and of...

We have all seen the pictures of Christ the Good Shepherd. Dressed in the artist's vision of what either Jesus would have worn or a...

Some of us know well the story of today's Gospel (Luke 24.13-35, please read it along with the other texts for today), some of us don't. ...

[Sermon for St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, Phoenix, Arizona, Thomas Sunday (Easter II, Dominica in Albis), April 16, 2023] ✠ In the Name of...

"“Do not be afraid; I know that you are looking for Jesus who was crucified. He is not here; for he has been raised, as he said. Come,...

Since the Roman Catholic Church's revision of its lectionary (schedule of readings for services), the Sunday before Easter, known as Palm...

This world is a rough and unforgiving place. Disaster, sickness, others' unrestrained behaviour, all of this reflects a cosmos where...