“The day will come.” Devastation. Ruin. Emptiness. Is this the fate of the earth?  Jesus himself, in today’s Gospel, saw terrible times ahead, a day coming when not one stone of our human temple will rest on another.  He warned of the signs.  There will be wars and insurrections.  Nations will fight to the death  Read more …

Thomas J. Talley, in The Origins of the Liturgical Year sees the beginning of an advent season in the Fourth Canon of the Council of Saragosa in 380.  In 567, the Synod of Tours established a December fast.  And in 581 the Council of Macon ordered an advent fast for the laity from the Feast  Read more …

God our savior is coming The antiphon of the evening prayer of the Advent Season re-echoes the entire liturgical year. Let us listen to it again: “Proclaim to the peoples: God our Savior is coming”.  At the beginning of Advent, the liturgy invites the church to renew her proclamation to all the peoples and sums  Read more …

Believing God’s promises The readings appointed for this week’s meditation talk about God’s promise to rescue, feed, and deliver his peoples.  These promises are changing points.  The Bible is full of them.  Our life is full of them.  You go through one stage of your life and, while you are in that stage, it looks  Read more …

One of the bigger issues that we have in churches today is the giving tithes and offerings. However if people really knew and could grasp the concept of how powerful giving tithes and offerings is, not only would everybody start giving, they would also do so with a heart of joy and thanksgiving. Today I  Read more …

Do they go together? Can they be separated? Can faith exist without culture? Can culture exist without faith? These questions are at the heart of today’s readings. In the broadest sense of the word, faith and culture are inextricably connected because a culture is always an expression of the faith which informs it. If a  Read more …

In the valley… of the darkness….of loss…fear not. Today’s gospel tells two heartbreaking stories, of a man losing a loved one (his daughter), and of a woman losing her health.  These are two terrible losses, the most feared by humans. But the gospel does not stop there; it also tells us how their willingness to  Read more …

The doctrine of apostolic succession—central to the Anglican-Catholic Church’s identity with the Church founded by Jesus in the first century—involves there being an unbroken line of bishops from the beginning of Christian history to the present. Christ conferred upon his apostles the original task of shepherding the earthly Church in his absence. As the Church  Read more …

All Saints…All Souls…. All….Afterlife Death is one of the toughest areas for spirituality, yet also the most wonderful. How can our beloved ones, so filled with the spark of life, so suddenly be gone from us?  Afterlife? Let us face it, today’s world is filled with unbelief about afterlife. Some people say there is no  Read more …

The doctrine of apostolic succession—central to the Anglican-Catholic Church’s identity with the Church founded by Jesus in the first century—involves there being an unbroken line of bishops from the beginning of Christian history to the present. Christ conferred upon his apostles the original task of shepherding the earthly Church in his absence. As the Church  Read more …