Palm Sunday the people had it right, perhaps for the very first time. Jesus was indeed the "Son of David", the Messiah. They were right to cry out to him for salvation, but in the fervor of the moment they lost the point. The salvation they needed was not external to them, the changing of … Continue reading On what we call…

St. Mary of Egypt Sunday 2010 We live, for the most part, in an unexamined state. In the affairs of life few of us ever have much time, frankly, to look at our lives with any kind of clarity at all and certainly not with the pure vision that only God possesses. We see ourselves … Continue reading This Sunday's Homily in advance…

I stand in your fire but remain unconsumed and for the moment the world is still. Only the words matter, as old as time, offered for the world and bright with your presence. How dark the night can be, and yet how precious this moment, this day, this time when eternity is in my hand … Continue reading I stand in your fire…

It's morning before a late day at work. The TV is on. Click. Someone is trying to sell me zircons. Click. There's a preacher telling me God wants me to be rich but before that I have to send him an "offering". Click. Re-runs of shows so old that everybody on them is dead. I … Continue reading Wasteland…

archaeologists discover that the Bible may be correct.