
Teach us to pray
I remember distinctly the day I told my father that I had memorized the Lord’s Prayer. I recited it for him and he was very pleased. I...

A man of the city...
In today’s gospel, Jesus is doing what we experience from him so many times. He is crossing boundaries. The first line of our reading...

Radical Welcome
All four Gospels contain a story about a woman anointing Jesus. In Matthew and Mark, Jesus is at the home of Simon the Leper. In John’s...

...gave him to his mother.
Recently I was observing a group of people who had been together in the past, and were becoming reacquainted. One woman said to another,...

Trinitarian musings...
This last week as I was driving to Rochester, I kept flipping the radio stations looking for something to listen to. It’s amazing how...

Thanks be to God.
A number of years ago I was attending the Vestry Retreat for my church in Tucson, Arizona. We were at a nice resort in a town called Rio...

… so that they may be one
The seventeenth chapter of the Gospel of John falls between the Passover meal that Jesus had with his disciples, where he washed their...

Do you want to be made well?
You might be thinking to yourself, “that Gospel reading doesn’t make sense.” And based on what the designers of the Revised Common...

Through the power of the Holy Spirit.
Poor Thomas. He is a disciple who is only mentioned once in each of the three other gospels, and then only in a list of the twelve, who...

Is it I Lord?
Now we begin the liturgical time known at the Triduum. Specifically tonight we observe the Last Supper and we wash feet. Over the next...