Once again, the Spirit has played a joke on me. Today’s reading is much-better suited for All Saints All Souls’ Day. But it is Advent & I know there is a seasonal message in this sermonette. Saints are celebrated in the Church as examples towards Godly, but not perfect living. If you’ve read any biography [...]
Today is All Saints Day. Let me tell you a funny story. Last year All Saints Day fell on a Sunday. So the processional hymn{ I sang in the chior , this was before I focused my ministry exclusively on Christian Education.} Anyhow, the Pittsburgh Steelers{ MY TEAM} were scheduled to play the New Orleans Saints [...]
Tomorrow will be the fourth Sunday of Lent, 2011. Since I will be busy hanging out with Best Dude tomorrow after Mass, so I am writing this week’s post on Saturday. You might remember my mentioning that I had lost my red copy of the Book of Common Prayer over one week ago & that [...]
ARGHHHH!! Sunday is the Feast of Christ The King…and then we have four weeks of Advent before Christmas. Suffice it to say I am feeling overwhelmed. I am trying to maintain an attitude of gratitude while keeping the TRUE meaning of Advent & Christmas is always a challenge for me…especially since I’ve moved to Florida. [...]
In honor of the Feast of the Transfiguration, I will dedicate this blog to my West Lib ” Lunch Bunch” friends. They have truly been & continue to be a major part of my life & I am blessed to count them as lifelong friends. Several of us live in the Wheeling/Pittsburgh area but some [...]
Today we commemorate on the church’s calendar the Feasts of Mary & Martha of Bethany. Today we also remember the ” Philadelphia 11″ , brave women who were first ordained to te priesthood of The Episcopal Church. I’ll admit that I know next to nothing about these women. But, according to the official site of [...]
Homily for Feast Day of St Benedict of Nursia { Transferred} July 14 2010 My priest honored my request to move the Feast Day of St Benedict of Nursia, which was Monday, to today. Not only is St Benedict one of my two patron saints, but he has a place in the history of modern Christian monasticism. [...]
Today is the Feast Day of one of my patron saints, St Benedict of Nursia. I am, in case I didn’t already mention, a Benedictine Oblate with the order of monks at St Leo Abbey in St Leo, FL. I was first introduced to Benedictine spirituality years ago when a Presbyterian minister I had [...]
I’ll be on vacation & therefore ” off the radar from tomorrow until 29 June. I’ll have limited Internet access, but for one whole week I’ll have no cell phone & ” very* limited Internet access at the Lake. I’m actually looking forward to a relatively technology-free vacation: I can relax & enjoy Austin Lake [...]
” Saints Among Us” {Numbers 11:16} I’d written a sermon years ago about saints & prophets. Our Church recogizes many saints in our calendar but Bishop Katharine challenges us to discover the living ” saints” in the communiity where we llive, work, worship & play. She says” …there are plenty of prophets out there & [...]
