Ut Aliis Tradere

A few years ago I was coming out of a slump in my faith. Some confessions call this backsliding, some call it lapsing, and I was close...

People who hear ancient Christian teaching will eventually hear the phrase, "He [Jesus] laid down His life for us, and we ought to lay...

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

Western culture has for centuries now been steeped in empiricism (or a counter-reaction to it). For a premise to be considered true it...

This is the day of resurrection! Let us be illumined by the feast! Let us embrace each other! Let us call “Brothers” even those that hate...

It's Palm Sunday...before the pandemic this was the time people went to Church to get a little extra drama, picked up a palm frond...

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

It's now become quite fashionable to adopt a more relativistic code of ethics, taking as one's motto, "An ye harm no one, do what ye...

The readings for Mass today seem to be all over the place (a common complaint about the Revised Common Lectionary, it seems). The Old...

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

Today's readings for Mass are all about water. Baptism in particular. In Lent, historically, we prepared newcomers to the faith for...

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

Today's Gospel for Mass (St. Mk. 1.29-39) has a line that has always bothered me, so I stuck that line in the title for a contemplation...

In the older liturgical cycles this Sunday is known as Septuagesima, which is the Latin word for 70th. The idea is that it was roughly...

Today's Mass readings are that rare and golden treasure trove where they all have a readily discernable theme running through all of them....