Good Friday – The Silence of Heaven

2 Apr 20212 Apr 2021

Any musician will tell you that the rests, the pauses in music are as important in a piece as the notes themselves. Today is a rare time, maybe the only…

5th Sunday – The Gift (and curse) of Work

6 Feb 202127 Feb 2021

Joseph the Carpenter, Georges de La Tour Job 7:1-7, Mark 1:29-39 We have a word that seems very relevant for the time we are living through in this pandemic. Job…

28th Sunday – The Process of Judgement

11 Oct 202031 Oct 2020

Parable of the Wedding Banquet, from paintingvalley.com Isaiah 25:6-10, Matt 22:1-14 We reach the last part of Matthew’s gospel as Jesus enters Jerusalem. (If you’re wondering whether you missed something,…

26th Sunday -Phronesis and the Drama of Suffering

27 Sep 202010 Oct 2020

The Apostle Paul by Rembrandt Phil 2:1-11 Philippi was a Roman Colony. A colony of Rome was an extension of Rome and it’s rule. These weren’t colonies in the sense we…

22nd Sunday – Stumbling Stone

30 Aug 202019 Sep 2020

Felix Joseph Barrias, The Temptation of Christ Matt 16:21-27, Romans 12:1-2 “It so happened that I [once wrote] a bestseller; this was a pure accident, due to inattention and naiveté and I would take…