Spiritual Growth

The Encroaching Kingdom

Year B Ezekiel 17:22-24 Psalm 92:1-4,11-14 2 Corinthians 5:6-10, 14-17 Mark 4:26-34 May the words of my mouth O God…  speak your truth… When you buy a house…  it’s important to know where the property lines are…  where the boundaries are…  ] that way…  if there’s any question about just where the fence separates the two properties…  if...

Baptized into Three-Fold Mystery

Year C Proverbs 8:1-4, 22-31 Psalm 8 Romans 5:1-5 John 16:12-15 May the words of my mouth O God…  speak your truth… I like magicians…  I think the first magician I ever knew about was Harry Houdini… doing the seemingly impossible in his Water Torture Cell… for those of you who are too young to remember…  they locked...

Adolescents in the Garden

Year C Genesis 11:1-9 Psalm 104:25-35, 37 Acts 2:1-21 John 14:8-17 May the words of my mouth O God…  speak your truth… The Book of Acts…  written by Luke…  was written about twenty years before John’s Gospel…  and it tells the story of the coming of the Holy Spirit…  the Advocate…  the Paraclete…  the one promised in today’s...