Matthew 4:12-23
Father Martin Boler was the Prior of Mount Saviour Monastery in Elmira New York. Some monasteries are called abbeys and the head of that is called an abbot. Some monasteries are priories and the head of that is called a prior. Mount Saviour Monastery was a priory and Father Martin was the prior there…
John 1:29-42
It has been said, oftentimes, that we don’t always see what we see or hear what we hear. The idea being that sometimes when we see something or hear something we approach it in a way that perhaps we have already heard this. So we don’t hear it in a fresh way. We don’t hear it in the moment…
Matthew 3:13-17
Some of us were baptized as babies and don’t remember a thing about it. Others of us were older and do remember quite well how it felt to be welcomed into the household of God. I was an infant, so it was up to my parents and godparents to speak on my behalf…
Matthew 2:1-12
From the earliest of our traditions, Christmas falls in the winter, with its shortened days. The ancients lit fires to break the spell of winter, those darkening days, with the hope of bringing back the sun and its longer days and the good fortune that came with it, or so they hoped…
In his book of meditations titled, “The Hungering Dark,” Theologian Fredrick Buechner recalls sitting in a theater audience made up mostly of college students watching the Fellini film La Dolce Vita…
Merry Christmas! As I walk through my life journey, my spiritual journey, I begin to wonder: are we human beings trying to discover what it means to be spiritual, or rather are we spiritual beings trying to discover what it means to be human?…
Here we are on the fourth Sunday of Advent, that Sunday when the sense of the season begins to shift toward Christmas space. The image before us is the image of preparing ourselves for Jesus’ coming…
James 5:7-10, Matthew 11:2-11
I’d like to do a little liturgical teaching this morning. Over the last few weeks of Advent we’ve heard about the theology of Advent, the spirituality of Advent. I’d like to talk a little about some of the liturgical things we do during this season of Advent…
Matthew 3:1-12
Have you ever read something, while you’re reading a paragraph or you get to the bottom of the page, where you stop and say, “What did I just read? It doesn’t make any sense.” You go back and read it again. That happened a lot to me when I was in seminary…
Matthew 24:36-44
Rrrring! Oh, how I hate to hear that sound early in the morning. Such a jarring wake up call, especially when you’re sound asleep. Am I the only one tempted to press the snooze button right about now? …