Ut Aliis Tradere

Normally I toss these reflections off before heading to Mass, but events today (including my web client deciding to bog down like cement)...

[Sermon to be delivered at St. Mary's Episcopal Church, Phoenix, Arizona, the Third Sunday in Lent, March 12, 2023] ✠ In the Name of the...

We've all seen them. Perhaps some haven't, or perhaps you have passed by them without noticing. Highways in North America have...

It's amazing how as Westerners we have at our fingertips. Many of us have plenty to eat and adequate or even plush and stylish shelter,...

[Sermon to be delivered at St. Mary's Episcopal Church, Phoenix, Arizona, Quinquagesima Sunday, February 19, 2023] ✠ In the Name of the...

People who get a little tweaked at rules and the "Thou shalt nots" that the Church has conveyed to us over the centuries often say, "Why...

"Unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven." (Mt. 5.20) Well, isn't...

(Readings for Mass for the Fourth Sunday after Epiphany can be found here.) The way and the message of the cross, as St. Paul writes, is...

One of the strangest concepts we had to grasp in science class in school was the concept that light is "invisible." As concepts go, it is...

I did a sermon for the Order of Preachers (see here for the text) that I have reworked somewhat to be delivered today at Mass at St....

Sorry to throw a $50 word at you right at the beginning... Trinity Sunday is months off...we still have to get through Epiphanytide,...

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.]...