Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21
On the day of your Baptism, you were marked with oil on your forehead. On sharing this thought at the 5:15 service, which was for children, and realized that many of the children gathered there I actually baptized…

Matthew 5:21-37
I’ve recently been watching the mini-series The Borgias. It was on Showtime a few seasons ago and now it’s available on Netflix. That’s where I’m watching it. The Borgias is about the time of history about 1492 to 1503 in Italy. It focuses on families at that time…

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…

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?…

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…

Luke 23:33-43
Two things today: a teaching and a reflection. Today is the Feast of Christ the King. It’s the last Sunday of the liturgical year. The next Sunday is the first Sunday of Advent which begins a new liturgical year…

Luke 20:27-38
How many of you know the comedian George Carlin? I don’t want to surprise you, but he’s one of my favorite comedians. Actually, Robin Williams and George Carlin are both in a similar category for me…

Matthew 5:1-12
Imagine with me, if you can, that we lost all the scriptures. They disappeared from the Planet Earth. But all we had was this text that we just read from Matthew’s Gospel. This Gospel reading that is often referred to as the Beatitudes. I believe that if that’s all we had, we’d have what we need to know what it means to be a follower of Jesus…