Ut Aliis Tradere

"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.]...

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,...