Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23
Last week it was a joyous occasion to watch so many children and young people come up at the 9:00 and 10:45 services to have their backpacks blessed and get ready to go off to school. As I watched this I thought, “If I could only stick one book in everyone’s backpack…”
John 6:59-69
I’m a huge fan of mob movies: Godfather, Goodfellas, Sopranos. I just find there are so many levels to those movies. You may say, “George, are those the kind of movies a priest is supposed to like?” But then you may say, “That’s alright, he’s from New York.”…
John 6:51-58
If you heard Lauren’s homily last week, you know how she spoke of the recurring theme of bread that keeps popping up in our Gospels of late. I must admit I have had this overwhelming desire to stand up here and simply say “ditto” to all she said last week and then sit down…
I don’t know how many of you have been paying attention to the lectionary readings every Sunday over the past couple of weeks, but you might have noticed that in our Gospels we are reading a lot about bread…
It has been said that one of the mistakes that the early Christians made was that of turning Jesus into a religion. Religion can mean a lot of different things in our lives. If I were to ask you, “What does that word religion mean?” there could be lots of descriptions…
2 Samuel 11:1-15
Is your faith working for you lately? I mean is it strong? Is it holding up nicely, carrying you through when something unexpected or unwanted happens? Is your faith helping you to understand that everything in life is not that easy?…
A few weeks ago at General Convention Bishop Curry gave a sermon in morning worship. Upon hearing it gave me a big smile and caused me to shout, “Amen” to my computer screen when I was listening to it.
2 Samuel 6:1-5,12b-19
Today our reading from the Old Testament has a vivid description of a celebration as David and all of Israel come into Jerusalem with the ark of the covenant. Now as you may know, the ark of the covenant was believed to be the throne or the seat of God…
Mark 6:1-13
Failure is a word that strikes fear in the heart of everybody. Our society has become so success oriented that we have very little tolerance for failure. How many times have we heard, “Failure is not an option?” …
This Thursday the General Convention of the Episcopal Church begins. I would like to talk about the General Convention that’s coming up. Over the years I’ve been here at St. Paul’s this is the fifth General Convention that’s happened and I’ve been told that giving a preview has been helpful…