John 2: 13-22
Growing up in my father’s house, my dad always kept pennies, either on his dresser or in a jar. Now pennies aren’t worth much any more, but they actually were, back then…

Mark 1:21-28, 29-39, Isaiah 40:21-31
How often do you think about healing and prayer? If you are at all like me there are names on your daily prayer list … where you lift up a life by name to God for healing and wholeness…

Mark 1:4-11
We all have places that bring us to a place of peace. Sometimes it’s just a comfortable chair by a fire or not by a fire. Sometimes it’s a way of stopping and breathing and just finding our center…

John 1:6-8,19-28
“I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness; prepare the way of the Lord.” There is a certain tension in our culture right now. Too many deaths of black men have caught our awareness. Too swift a hand to draw a gun or to use a choke hold…

Matthew 25:14-30
We have a certain rhythm of going down to the beach in North Carolina. Every morning when it comes time to walk our newly acquired dog, I find myself confronted by numbers of people. At this time of the year you get a lot of surf casters…

Matthew 22:34-46
Spiritual journeys begin in very simple ways. Usually they begin by a dawning awareness of some sense of connection that runs deeper than we anticipate. Or they begin again because there is a desire to grow deeper in our life…

Luke 24:13-35
There are times in our life that are disorienting. Often these are times that involve change. There can be times of stagnation as well that disorient us. Perhaps someone has died and we enter into grief with its dragging weight…

Matthew 26:14-27:66
What do you prefer to have in your hand today? The palm? The thirty pieces of silver? The Eucharistic bread which was celebrated on this night in this gospel and which we will receive here? A pillow for sleep? The defending sword? The helpful touch of the cross like that of Simon of Cyrene? The nails and the hammer?…

John 9:1-23, 28-41
The video that went viral on YouTube this week was of a British woman, age 39, named JoAnn, who was hearing for the first time by the gift of implants. Her reaction is not at all subtle. There’s tears of amazement, there’s joy, there’s a nervous shaking of her hand as she hears sound for the first time…

Luke 2:22-40, Malachi 3:1-4
I thought, earlier in the day, that on February second we mark a secular feast that’s called Groundhog Day, but I was informed that the real secular feast is the Super Bowl. But for those of us who are in liturgical time, it is the Feast of the Presentation of Our Lord Jesus Christ…