5/7 Readings: Lift Up Your Eyes February 1, 2021 Sunday's Readings 5 Epiphany Isa. 40:21-31 Ps. 147:1-12, 21c I Cor. 9:16-23 Mark 1:29-39 Reviewing and testing our knowledge of God, the psalmist asks, “Have you not known? Have you not heard? Has it not been told you fro... Read more...
1/31 Readings: Before the Miracle January 25, 2021 Sunday's Readings Far too often, a religious assembly is a gathering of certain people to which certain other people are not welcome.
1/24 Readings: A Wounded Happiness January 18, 2021 Sunday's Readings Nothing in this life can bring forth human happiness because it was never designed to do so. Human happiness arrives when our hearts are surely fixed where true joys are to be found.
1/17 Readings: You Don’t Know What It Is January 11, 2021 Sunday's Readings 2 Epiphany I Sam. 3:1-10 (11-20) Ps. 139:1-5, 12-17 I Cor. 6:12-20 John 1:43-51 "You did not choose me, but I chose you" (John 15:16). These words of Jesus challenge the idea that we accept Jesus Christ ... Read more...
1/10 Readings: Every Creature January 4, 2021 Sunday's Readings 1 Epiphany Gen. 1:1-5 Ps. 29 Acts 19:1-7 Mark 1:4-11 Jesus Christ came to his own (John 1:11). In the fullness of time, he was revealed to the Gentiles, the whole human world, and, lest we forget, he was... Read more...
1/3 Readings: Every Blessing December 28, 2020 Sunday's Readings We have been blessed, in Christ, by all that the Father gives to the Son, which is an inexhaustible treasure. The gifts of grace and adoption and fullness are rooted in God’s eternal and inscrutable will.
12/27 Readings: The True Light and a True Christmas December 21, 2020 Sunday's Readings Though dead in our sin and lost in our rejection of Christ, Christ continues to pursue us in judgment and mercy.
12/13 Readings: Love and Vengeance December 8, 2020 Sunday's Readings John the Baptist said, “I am not the Messiah, I am not, no!” Similarly, we are not the cause of our own salvation. No. We are witnesses, vessels, New Beings. Purged of sin and born again, we shine like the brightness of the sun.
12/6 Readings: Migration December 1, 2020 Sunday's Readings For a full 70 years, the people of God wept and hoped for a return to their land and their temple.
11/29 Readings: The Heavens Opened November 23, 2020 Sunday's Readings God has come in the calling of a people, in their journey to freedom and responsibility under the law and as a nation.