Saturday, June 23, 2018
Great God, Father/Mother, Creator, Loving Jesus, brother, teacher, savior, Gentle Spirit, powerful guide, I honestly don’t know where to start. There are so many things to say that they all seem to be whirling about like numbered balls in a bingo cage. Everybody prays...
Friday, June 22, 2018
Readings for the feast day of St. Alban, June 22, 2018: Psalm 31:1-5 Wisdom 3:1-9 1 John 3:13-16 Matthew 10:34-42 I’m guessing that from the photo of the statue I provided with my reflection today, you have already discerned St. Alban’s ultimate fate....
Thursday, June 21, 2018
Matthew 18:10-20 ‘Take care that you do not despise one of these little ones; for, I tell you, in heaven their angels continually see the face of my Father in heaven.’ – Matthew 18:10 Many years ago, when I was coordinator of a state coalition...
Wednesday, June 20, 2018
Luke 6:43-44: No good tree bears bad fruit, nor again does a bad tree bear good fruit; for each tree is known by its own fruit. Figs are not gathered from thorns, nor are grapes picked from a bramble bush. Here we are, on the cusp of the new millennium’s third...
Tuesday, June 19, 2018
As the birds sing their morning song and the world awakes, I go to the garden to water. Before the day has officially begun, I go to the garden to pray. Before all the other tasks of cleaning and cooking, I go to the garden to be still. For this water, Lord, I give...
Monday, June 18, 2018
Monday, Proper 6 Looking through the Gospel readings for this week, I stopped at the one for tomorrow, Matthew 17:22-27. First there were the cold words predicting the death and rising again of the Son of Man, and it caught my breath as if I had never heard them...
Sunday, June 17, 2018
by Linda McMillan Sometimes things are not the way we think they are going to be. They may be much better or much worse, or just much different, but it’s not like what we imagined. I suspect it was this way for Jesus’ disciples too. They thought the...
Saturday, June 16, 2018
Matthew 5:33-37 I have always liked the book of Matthew. It is one of the synoptic Gospels, sharing similarities with both Mark and Luke, yet with some differences. Matthew and Luke both seem to have copied bits of Mark but put in different emphases and...
Friday, June 15, 2018
There is a lot to work with in the readings for Friday in the season of Pentecost, Proper 5. Not the least because it is interesting to look at the difference and similarities in translation between the Book of Common Prayer and Robert Alter’s The Book of...
Thursday, June 14, 2018
The Feast Day of St. Basil the Great It is the Feast Day of St. Basil the Great, which happens to be the day upon which, twenty-one years ago and ten years into our relationship, Rosean and I vowed our commitment to one another before witnesses, the day upon...
Wednesday, June 13, 2018
Mark 4:26-34 The moth went flying around my house yesterday as if he owned the joint. According to my daughter, the moth was the size of a jumbo-jet, a monster out of a Japanese horror movie. To my eyes, this was a tiny brown interloper—harmless. Much...
Tuesday, June 12, 2018
The church my husband serves and where we worship as a family is celebrating their 100th anniversary of the sanctuary. They’ve been a congregation for 135 years, but this year marks the 100th year they’ve worshipped in this particular sanctuary. 100 years of singing,...
Monday, June 11, 2018
Happy Feast of St. Barnabas. When we think about the founders of the Early Church, two come immediately to mind. St. Peter and St. Paul. Peter, the mostly loyal, always loving, often dim, the rock on which the Church was built. Paul, the zealot, protecting the...
Sunday, June 10, 2018
Genesis 3:8-15 “I heard the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid… and I hid myself.” A reading like the one we have this morning from Genesis seems like a no-brainer. There are half a dozen or more sermons begging to be plucked out of this...
Saturday, June 9, 2018
Today we celebrate the commemoration of St. Columba, best known for his missionary work in Ireland and Scotland and his establishment of three religious communities, perhaps the most famous of them at Iona, a tiny island off the coast of Scotland. Columba set up Iona...
