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.
10/6 Readings: The Faith of Jesus Christ October 1, 2019 Sunday's Readings The sentences about faith “the size of a mustard seed” having the power to uproot a mulberry tree show the power of faith to accomplish an extraordinary (though useless) movement of a tree from land to sea.
9/29 Readings: A Rule for the Rich September 24, 2019 Sunday's Readings The rich have their temptations, but they also have opportunities for great gain in godliness. This takes discipline and humility and a determined generosity rooted in mercy. This is hard, but not impossible.
9/15 Readings: Welcomed Sinners September 9, 2019 News, Sunday's Readings The heavens rejoice, the Church rejoices, all creation rejoices over one single soul united in peace and love to the eternal Son of God. Never has it been so good to be a sinner.
9/1 Readings: Bow Down Before God August 26, 2019 Sunday's Readings Humbled before God, we have all the riches of God and may give voice to every creature under heaven in endless and boundless praise.
8/25 Readings: Released on the Sabbath August 19, 2019 Sunday's Readings Notwithstanding the legitimate need for a livelihood, the setting aside of “self-interest” for a time helps to strengthen families and communities, allowing a space for mutual engagement in common life and shared interests.
8/18 Readings: Division and Decision August 12, 2019 Sunday's Readings God is love. Nothing can be said truly about God and God’s purpose in calling creation into being which blunts or otherwise qualifies this essential and irrevocable doctrine.
8/4 Readings: Vanity and the Victory of Christ July 29, 2019 Sunday's Readings “For we see that the wise die also; like the dull and stupid they perish and leave their wealth to those who come after them."
