12/15 Readings: Human Weakness and the Power of Christ December 10, 2019 Sunday's Readings In baptism we meet the grace of the Christ, the energy of Christ, the power of Christ, the unadulterated reality of Christ, and from that reality a new life begins.
12/8 Readings: Peace and Judgment December 2, 2019 Sunday's Readings “The wolf shall live with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid . . . and a little child shall lead them.”
12/1 Readings: Wake from Sleep November 25, 2019 Sunday's Readings “Keep awake therefore, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming.”
11/24 Readings: Blood of His Cross November 19, 2019 Sunday's Readings When human shepherds fail the flock of God, judgment comes.
11/17 Readings: Joy and Rejoicing November 13, 2019 Sunday's Readings Joy is a neglected necessity. Lift up your hearts! Even in silence, the heart may sing and rejoice, and live in hope and trust. Joy has come in Christ. He lives forevermore. Go on in trust and hope, and dance before the Lord.
11/10 Readings: From Ruin to Splendor November 6, 2019 Sunday's Readings The Lord will shine in his holy Church. The Lord will live in homes and communities. The Lord will take his seat in the temples of human hearts. Although waiting to attain the full glory of the Lord, a measure of it is already present. Go on in hope.
11/3 Readings: Climb Up October 28, 2019 Sunday's Readings We are like Zacchaeus, who, though hearing well, could not see Jesus. What are we to do and how are we to keep watch? Doing his very best, Zacchaeus climbed a sycamore tree.
10/27 Readings: Home of Humility October 22, 2019 Sunday's Readings No right prayer, therefore, will sound like this: “God, I thank you that I am not like other people: thieves, rogues, adulterers, or even like this tax-collector. I fast twice a week; I give a tenth of all my income”
10/20 Readings: Inner Law of Christ October 14, 2019 Sunday's Readings Faith is not, in the end, advanced by seeing God only as the agency of goodness measured by human ease and pleasure. In this case, all misfortune, testing, trial, and pain would be evidence of where God is not.
10/13 Readings: New Life in Exile October 7, 2019 Sunday's Readings There is a time to hang up our harps. There is a time to weep. There is also a time to make our home in an alien land. We are in the world, but we are not, after all, of it.
