Early one sultry Saturday morning in August, when I was ten years old, my mom and dad packed up my brother and me in the car, and we set off from our home in River Edge, NJ for Lake Hopatcong, which sits about forty miles west of River Edge, mostly along and a little...
Year A Exodus 16:2-15 Psalm 105:1-6, 37-45 Philippians 1:21-30 Matthew 20:1-16 May the words of my mouth O God… speak your truth… Our reading from Exodus today… shines a light on… and helps better understand today’s Gospel… because in the wilderness… the Israelites grumbled against Moses and Aaron… as the laborers grumbled against the vineyard owner… in the...
Year A Acts 2:42-47 Psalm 23 1 Peter 2:19-25 John 10:1-10 May the words of my mouth O God… speak your truth… A gatekeeper is a person who controls access to something… for example… someone who allows or denies access to an ancient city… or a bouncer at a nightclub… or more abstractly… some who controls access to...