Dear Siblings in Christ, Today marks the high feast of the Transfiguration. Jesus takes a few of his disciples up on the mountaintop to pray and…

My Sisters and Brothers,  In today’s Office readings the Prologue to John’s Gospel (1:1-18) is offered. This highly celebrated poem is a frequent recitation at Christmas and at the end…

Dear Friends in Christ, Prior to last week, I’d never been near a surf board. Neither had the boys. I have watched a surfing movie or…

Cheaters never prosper. Dear friend, How many of us heard this in school?  Or, sticks and stones might break my bones, but words can never hurt…

It is the law of friendship that friends should live together. . . . Christ has not left us without his bodily presence in this our…

Dear Friends in Christ, Today in the church calendar we remember Ignatius of Layola (1491-1556). At sixteen, Ignatius (Iñigo López de Oñaz y Loyola) became a…

Dear Siblings in Christ, Some bits of rhetoric may be apocryphal, but they so summarize the work of an individual that they stay with his legacy…

Dear Friends in Christ, One of our readings for today is Luke 10: 38-42, where Jesus has been welcomed into the home of Martha and Mary…

Dear Friends in Christ, Yesterday, on a short vacation to get reacquainted after the choir residency, we tried surfing for the first time. I asked our…

When on others you are calling, do not pass me by…* Dear friend, Pilate gets away with murder. Or does he? Get away, that is. I…

When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to him and said, “… walk before me faithfully and …I will make my covenant between me and you and will greatly increase…