Year B Joel 2:1-2,12-17 Psalm 103:8-14 2 Corinthians 5:20b-6:10 Matthew 6:1-6,16-21 May the words of my mouth… O God… speak your Truth… As we grow up… some things catch our attention… some things make more of an impression on us than other things do… form us in some way… when I was almost a...
Year B 2 Kings 2:1-12 Psalm 50:1-6 2 Corinthians 4:3-6 Mark 9:2-9 May the words of my mouth… O God… speak your Truth… Today is the Feast of St. Valentine… yes… Valentine’s Day and Transfiguration Sunday too… and as I sat at my desk a few days ago… writing this sermon… I wondered about...
Year B Isaiah 40:21-31 Psalm 147:1-12, 21c 1 Corinthians 9:16-23 Mark 1:29-39 May the words of my mouth… O God… speak your Truth… Essential workers… who are they… there’s a little bit of blurriness in my timeline… but early in the pandemic… perhaps in March or April… it seemed they were all of the...
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… ...