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Summer offers us an opportunity to relax with family and friends and to refresh ourselves for the rest of the year’s journey. It is also the time for us to reflect on the blessings that have shaped our lives and … Continue reading →

REMINDER: WEAR RED ON PENTECOST   When I saw “Reminder: Wear Red on Pentecost” I smiled at the sentiment. Show our unity. Feel the fire, or as the poet Browning would have it, “the indubitable bliss of fire.” I smiled as … Continue reading →

The spirit goes where it wills. That is its nature. It seeks out what is new, different, excitingly dangerous, taking risks to be true to itself, always challenging whatever affects us to grow us to maturity. The spirit is the playful … Continue reading →

To all my readers: I wish you a Blessed New Year, full of health, happiness and prosperity. May this be for all of us a time of new beginning and renewal, a time when the soul is cleansed, the spirit … Continue reading →

To all my readers: I pray that you have a Blessed Christmas and a New Year full of joy and peace, health and prosperity. Patrick

The Passion, originally and still, calls for reflection and understanding. That the Christ would suffer and die seems to interrupt the flow of the narrative. He indicates to his disciples, who still misunderstand, that the unexpected will prevail. The first … Continue reading →

The Gospel of Luke offers us the narrative of the sower and the many different soils upon which the seeds fell. It is a parable drawn from an agricultural context, where we may assume that farmers know how to prepare the soil. That makes … Continue reading →

Jesus went through towns and villages with his disciples. He was also accompanied by some women of power and economic means,who supported financially his work. Among them were Mary Magdalen, Joanna and Suzanna. The narrative informs us that from Mary, … Continue reading →

Poetry wrestles from the heart of myth the true likeness of the divine. So much of the speech of Jesus in Matthew does the same. In Matthew’s Gospel, Jesus as the Revealer is often presented as the Sophia of God, the divine … Continue reading →

Jesus compares his generation to children who cannot be pleased. “We played for you, you did not dance. We wailed, you did not weep.” They cared neither for John the Baptist, nor for the Son of Man. They accepted neither … Continue reading →