When I looked at the scripture readings for this week I was reminded of a game from Sesame Street. Four objects would be shown on the screen while one of the characters sang these words: “One of these things is not like the other....
Let me be the first to wish you a happy new year today. That’s right. Today is the first Sunday of Advent, the beginning of a new year in the church calendar. And as always, we begin with a paradox....
It has always struck me as kind of a shame that Thanksgiving falls on a Thursday, removed from any special notice at Sunday worship services. Most years, including this one, the Sunday after Thanksgiving is the first Sunday of...
Blessed Lord, who caused all holy Scriptures to be written for our learning: Grant us so to hear them, read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them, that we may embrace and ever hold fast the blessed hope of everlasting life, which you have given us...
Charlie Plumb was a fighter pilot in Vietnam. He returned safely from 75 combat missions. But on his 76th flight, his plane was hit by a surface-to-air missile. Plumb ejected from the plane just in time, pulled his parachute, and drifted to the ground. He was captured...
I was doing some web surfing this week when a headline caught my eye. “My Church Doesn’t Know What to Do Anymore” it screamed at me. “Leading a church is harder now, in 2021, than it was in 2020,” writes Elizabeth...
St. Dunstan’s October 24, 2021 When I was a young child, I would go with my mother shopping in downtown San Antonio, where I lived for the first nine years of my life. I remember sometimes seeing someone sitting on the sidewalk holding a cup, asking for a...
Jesus said, “You lack one thing; go, sell what you own, and give the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; then come, follow me.” St. Anthony of Thebes, brought up in a wealthy Christian family, but orphaned at age 18, heard these...
