There is a scene in the movie Braveheart when the king is in his tower trying to decide what to do when one of his aides makes a suggestion. The king responds, “who is this that presumes to give me advice,” and throws the aide out the window. Something similar is happening with the Prophet Amos.… Read More »
JULY12020
In Montgomery, Alabama there is a Civil Rights Memorial designed by Maya Lin, the same architect who created the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Etched into a granite table are the names of those martyred during the Civil Rights era. When you touch the names you realize there is unnoticed water flowing over the table, so calm… Read More »
JUNE302020
For the next several weeks the first readings will be taken from the Biblical prophets, beginning with the Prophet Amos. The lion roars– who will not be afraid! The Lord GOD speaks– who will not prophesy! Amos takes an experience from nature, the roar to the lion, as an avenue to understand the presence of God.… Read More »
JUNE292020
When you visit Rome the statues of Sts. Peter and Paul are everywhere. The Church there takes great pride that its foundation includes these two pillars of the Faith. In one of the epistles we read something that applies to both apostles: The Lord stood by me and gave me strength, so that through me… Read More »
JUNE282020
There’s a syrupy Victorian hymn which begins “What a friend we have in Jesus.” Then there’s a much better contemporary gospel song by Andre Crouch: “Can’t nobody do me like Jesus. He’s my friend.” The idea of Jesus being our friend goes back, of course, to our Lord himself when he told his disciples: “I… Read More »
JUNE272020
St. Matthew begins the public ministry of Jesus with the long discourse we call the Sermon on the Mount. After the Sermon Jesus is depicted as exercising a healing ministry. He cleanses a leper, heals the centurion’s servant, restores Peter’s mother-in-law, and drove out the evil spirits by a word and cured all the sick in… Read More »
JUNE262020
A friend of mine who was born and raised in Louisiana but has lived for the last few years up north told me of discussions with his family who are still back home. They were highly critical of Black Lives Matter. When my friend tried to explain to them the significance of the movement they… Read More »
JUNE252020
“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the Kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven.” If you are anything like me you worry about your family members and loved ones who aren’t believers. The Faith is so important to me I suppose that they… Read More »
JUNE242020
The Old Testament lesson for the Birth of John the Baptist is from Isaiah: I thought I had toiled in vain, and for nothing, uselessly, spent my strength. At the time of the Baptist’s death he could not see the fruits of his labors, God had not intervened. Yet in the tradition of the Church… Read More »
JUNE232020
The threat against Judah was very real. Just twenty years earlier the Assyrians had destroyed the northern kingdom of Israel and deported its people. So when King Hezekiah’s appealed for God to intervene and protect “his holy city, Jerusalem” he was desperate. How relieved he must have been when the Prophet Isaiah brought the message:… Read More »
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