There are two distinct stories in our Gospel reading today, but I want to suggest to you they perhaps are not so distinct. I think the Gospel writer, Luke, was making a point by putting these
When it comes to how to live, love, and operate as a church, the Church in Corinth is not the model. Not by a long shot. In 1 and 2 Corinthians we learn more from the
We are going to take a look, not only at the Epistle reading today, but we are going to back up and see the context in which our Epistle emerges. In Col. 3 there are
Today we are looking at the Gospel reading in Matthew, and specifically the first of the two miracles Jesus preforms. The Healing of the Leper. In this story there is a sentence full of richness and
John is the last of the prophets before the messiah, speaking of the messiah to come. The only one who meets the messiah face to face. He was a isolated and eccentric fellow, eating locust and
Our gospel reading today gives us the only account we have of young Jesus. We just celebrated Christmas so we may still be holding images in our minds of baby Jesus in a manger. Soon enough
Today we are celebrating the Epiphany, meaning “appearance, manifestation, coming into view”. We use this expressing “I had an epiphany” (small e) in pop culture for just about anything... The Christian Celebration of Epiphany is much
It’s easy to think about it at the high points, but “God with us” goes further. “God with us” is even in the most traumatizing events in our life. Even then we can infer that “God
Christmas Eve represents an anticipation or a waiting that is almost over. Tonight Kids you may have gifts that you have been waiting for and waiting to open tomorrow. We all have had some anticipation or
What do you tell yourself when you ask yourself, “what is my identity as a Christian?” Here is one of Paul’s answers when talking to the Church at Corinth: This is how one should regard us,
We celebrate Advent with both the first coming of Christ, but also very often of the final and eschatological coming of Christ. St. Bernard of Clairvaux proposes, in a famous sermon given in the 12th Century
There’s a clear association between the miracle they just witnessed, and the even bigger one Jesus is yet to reveal: that He is the Bread of Life, and he gave himself for us - so that