Year A Isaiah 35:1-10 Canticle 15 James 5:7-10 Matthew 11:2-11 May the words of my mouth O God… speak your truth… When there’s going to be a space launch… like Thursday’s Falcon 9 rocket… which deployed an array of low-Earth orbit satellites… there are literally hundreds… if not thousands of variables which must be seamlessly integrated and precisely...
Year C Jeremiah 31:31-34 Psalm 46 Romans 3:19-28 John 8:31-36May the words of my mouth O God… speak your truth… Honey bees live together in large… well-organized family groups… they are social insects… not solitary ones… and because of that… they engage in a variety of specialized tasks not practiced by the thousands of the solitary ones… complex...
Year C Sirach 35:12-17 Psalm 84:1-6 2 Timothy 4:6-8,16-18 Luke 18:9-14 May the words of my mouth O God… speak your truth… The Book of Sirach was written during the four-hundred-or-so year period… after the last book of the Jewish Testament… Malachi… was written… and before the first book of the Christian Testament… 1 Thessalonians… was written… which...
Year C 2 Kings 5:1-3, 7-15c Psalm 111 2 Timothy 2:8-15 Luke 17:11-19 May the words of my mouth O God… speak your truth… We talked last week… about how faith… even the size of a mustard seed… is enough… because our lives… our work… our challenges… our successes… our formation… and maybe especially our growth into boundlessness… ...
Year C Habakkuk 1:1-4, 2:1-4 Psalm 37:1-10 2 Timothy 1:1-14 Luke 17:5-10 May the words of my mouth O God… speak your truth… Every year… on the first Sunday in October… Christians around the globe celebrate World Communion Sunday… which is a day to remember that Jesus is the Head of the Church… and on this day… people draw...