The Rev. George Adamik reflects on Jesus’s controversial return to his hometown in Luke 4:21-30.

On the Feast of the Epiphany (Matthew 2:1-12), the Rev. George Adamik contemplates city skylines and our calling to be “spires of light in the darkness of our world.”

On Christmas Eve, the Rev. George Adamik reflects on Jesus’s birth into poverty, among the homeless, outcasts, the poor, refugees, and migrants.

The Rev. George Adamik reflects on the beginning of Advent and a new liturgical year: “How can we be present to presence?”

On the Sunday of our annual parish meeting, Father George takes the opportunity to share a few highlights from our parish life together. Remember to pledge, and thank you for your support of St. Paul’s and its ministries.

Mark 10:17-31
I love this Gospel reading. It’s oftentimes referred to as “The Story of the Rich Man.” I have a different title for it though. I call it “The Story of the Second from Last.” What does that mean? Did you ever notice that when we talk to each other, usually the thing you want to talk about is like the second from the last thing you talk about?….

The Rev. George Adamik reflects on Mark 8:27-38: “Jesus asks his disciples, ‘Who do people say that I am?’ Is there any more human question that any of us wonder in our lives? … And then Jesus asks them one of the most significant questions in scripture: ‘And you, who do you say that I am?'”

The Rev. George Adamik discusses John 6:56-69: “How can we satisfy our deep hunger? It begins by realizing sometimes we’re trying to fill that hunger with ‘junk food,’ with stuff that’s not going to nourish us or lead us to wholeness… Jesus came as bread, as food, and whoever is hungry can be fed.”

For reference, here are the passages by St. Augustine and Richard Rohr discussed in today’s homily:

“Christ is the bread, awaiting hunger.” (St. Augustine)

“The Eucharist is telling us that God is the food and all we have to do is provide the hunger. Somehow we have to make sure that each day we are hungry, that there’s room inside of us for another presence. If you are filled with your own opinions, ideas, righteousness, superiority, or sufficiency, you are a world unto yourself and there is no room for ‘another.’ Despite all our attempts to define who is worthy and who is not worthy to receive communion, our only ticket or prerequisite for coming to Eucharist is hunger. And most often sinners are much more hungry than the ‘saints.'” (Richard Rohr)

The Rev. George Adamik reflects on John 6:24-35 and growing up during the turbulent 1960s: “We can live into God’s dream and God’s hope, and, as Bishop Curry so often says, step out of the nightmare that we have created into the dream God has for creation. When we look at the world today and our country, we can’t just say ‘it’s the way it is.’ No, it’s not; it can be something different.”