When I was about seven or eight, and my family drove to visit relatives in Brooklyn or Long Island, or Pennsylvania, I would almost always ask my parents, “Are we there yet?” I had faulty and self-serving concepts about time and distance, and in my eagerness, thought that getting from point A to point...
Year B Jonah 3:1-5, 10 Psalm 62:6-14 1 Corinthians 7:29-31 Mark 1:14-20 May the words of my mouth… O God… speak your Truth… It was the last straw… it was the straw that broke the camel’s back… I mean… there’s only so much you can stand… so much weight of wrong… you can carry… ...
Year B 1 Samuel 3:1-20 Psalm 139:1-5, 12-17 1 Corinthians 6:12-20 John 1:43-51 May the words of my mouth… O God… speak your Truth… In today’s passage from 1 Samuel… the boy Samuel mistakes God’s voice… for Eli’s voice… mistakes the One divine voice… for one human voice… God calls Samuel three times… and...
Year B Genesis 1:1-5 Psalm 29 Acts 19:1-7 Mark 1:4-11 May the words of my mouth… O God… speak your Truth… In the beginning… the earth was a formless void… and darkness covered the face of the deep… then God said… Let there be light… and there was light… but wait a minute… ...
Year B Jeremiah 31:7-14 Psalm 84:1-8 Ephesians 1:3-6,15-19a Luke 2:41-52 May the words of my mouth… O God… speak your Truth… According to the Oxford English Dictionary… a nuclear family is the family group made up of a father… mother… and their children… and has been regarded as a basic social unit… and an...