Our Mission is Growing Disciples of Jesus Christ

Tomorrow, July 11, is the day each year when the church takes time to remember and celebrate St. Benedict of Nursia. The story of Benedict is fascinating.

I hope that you and yours are having a wonderful holiday weekend! Pray for our country on this our 249th birthday.

Summer is often a time for disconnection from work and school, and we carve out time for relaxation and reflection. In our leisure, there is still time for conversations about inflation, global politics, conflict with Iran, social issues in the US, kids, teachers, and the juggle of it all.

Today is Juneteenth, the day we remember when the news (and enforcement) of emancipation from slavery reached Texas after the Civil War, two years after the Emancipation Proclamation by President Lincoln.

This Sunday is Trinity Sunday. The Doctrine of the Trinity is often called “a mystery.” In seminary, we tried to get out of writing complex papers for our theology class by telling the professor “it’s a mystery!”

This weekend we celebrate the feast of Pentecost, the time when the Holy Spirit filled Jesus’ disciples in a new way, the beginning of God pouring out his Spirit into the world through the church, where his power and presence is alive and active.

Today is the Feast of the Ascension. Forty days after Jesus’ resurrection, he was lifted up and out of the sight of the disciples, returning to the Father and awaiting his coming again in glory.

1,700 years ago, bishops from across the church gathered in Nicaea (in what is now Turkey).

It seemed the whole world was watching as the Roman Catholic church mourned the death of Pope Francis and awaited the election of his successor, Pope Leo XIV.

Happy Easter! They say that ‘curiosity killed the cat,’ but I wonder if a better saying would be ‘curiosity gave the cat nine lives.’ What I mean is this: God created us as relational creatures—

What experience of beauty takes your breath away? What sight or sound or smell leaves you speechless and awestruck and full of delight all a

Have you ever encountered flaws in the church? If you haven’t, then you haven’t had much contact with the church.

This week, in our common reading of “Liturgy of the Ordinary,” the author writes about reconciliation, and how our reconciling with God and

This Lent, our parish is studying a common book across small groups, Sunday School classes and Bible Studies. ‘Liturgy of the Ordinary’ desc

Come join us for Ash Wednesday services today at 7AM, Noon or 7:30PM. It seems strange that we are drawn to this service that marks us with

I was going to write about the virtue of Humility, but I’m just not good enough… Hmm, perhaps that’s false humility—and a lack of courage to

I wrote in the last two weeks (here and here) about chastity, as part of a series on Stewardship, Chastity and Humility.

Hmm… I hadn’t planned on writing about chastity on Valentine’s Day… I’ll have to factor that in next time… But what better day to consider c

I’m writing a series on stewardship, chastity and humility, virtues that underlie monastic vows of poverty, celibacy and obedience, virtues

I wrote last week about Stewardship, Chastity and Humility, virtues that underlie the vows of Poverty, Celibacy and Obedience taken by monks