Lent is a season that reminds us from whence we’ve come and where we are going. In the midst of it we breathe.
Worship. Serve. Grow.
Worship. Serve. Grow.
Sermons on podcast (Page 13)
This Ash Wednesday, Fr. Javier reflects on the relationship between fasting and feasting during Lent—and the difference between guilt and shame as we practice repentance and self-examination.
This week, Fr. Javier reflects on the role of prayer in mountaintop (or canal-side) experiences: “As the old spiritual goes, you don’t have to preach like Peter; you don’t have to pray like Paul. You can simply create time and space for Jesus to show up in your life. And that, my friends, is good…
Having enemies is part of being a human. Jesus offers a vision of how to live – and even thrive – with them.
Listen to Fr. George offer a new meaning of the word Blessed that we hear in the Beatitudes. Hear what the word meant in the language of Jesus. Do to technical difficulties, we were not able to record the full homily.
Fr. Javier reflects on how the prophet Isaiah and the apostles Peter and Paul discovered their vocation, and how we, too, might discover ours: “To find our purpose isn’t a single decision, but the work of a lifetime. And through that work, we are being saved—made into a people pulled from every tribe, tongue, and…
This Sunday, Mo. Alice reflects on the Gospel of Luke 4:21-30.
Being the Body of Christ is a moving from “I” to “We”, from “Me” to “Us”. Exploring what it means to be the Body of Christ.
This Sunday, Fr. Javier reflects on Jesus’ first sign at the wedding in Cana and his message of abundant life: “We work so that we may better enjoy the life we’ve been given. We struggle so that others might do the same… In a world of cheap knock-offs—visions of happiness that are trite and ethereal; moments of…
Luke 14:1, 7-14
George Washington, one of the founding fathers and the first president of the United States, transcribed a little book as a school exercise sometime before he was 16 years old. It is entitled Rules of Civility & Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation … The gospel today sounds a little like Washington’s rules. It reads like a lesson in table manners… but there’s something more at stake here.