Sermons

Probably the most famous – and, in my opinion, the best – fantasy book ever written is The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien. It is actually made up of three books, and it is an epic story about… Continue reading

One of the special things we do in the season of Easter is instead of having a reading from the Old Testament for the first reading of the Mass, traditionally we have a reading from the book of the Acts… Continue reading

The season of Easter doesn’t end when we have finished our Easter dinner leftovers and put our wilting pots of Easter lilies on the back porch. Easter, the celebration of our new life in Christ, continues on for 50 days… Continue reading

Never believe anything just because you read it on the internet, or hear about it on television, or most especially because you see it pictured on the front of those newspapers in the checkout line at the grocery store. We… Continue reading

I think that almost everyone in this room has had the experience of finding out about the birth of a new baby – remember that moment when you learned that you, or your wife, or your sister or mother or… Continue reading

Chapter 18 of the second book of Kings tells the story of a young king named Hezekiah who came to the throne in Judah at the age of twenty-five. It was around the year 700 B.C., three hundred years after… Continue reading

The gospel passage about the cleansing of the Temple always has a jarring feel to it, I think, because Jesus seems to be acting much more human than we are comfortable with. We know that Jesus is compassionate, that he… Continue reading

I’m going to ask you to imagine that you have a good friend named Bill. You’ve known Bill for thirty-five years, ever since you lived on the same street when your families were both young. Bill drove you to the… Continue reading