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As I approached the double doors that always fling themselves open to welcome and invite me to continue my journey through the walkway that leads into Good Samaritan Hospital, I found myself looking through the glass at another woman who looked as confused as I felt. Clearly both of us…
Our Sunday Scriptures continue preparing us to receive a revelation of “one who is coming after me [who] is mightier than I,” in the words of John the Baptist. The Baptist echoes the sentiment of our first reading from Isaiah: “… the glory of the Lord shall be revealed ……
Many months ago, I was asked to provide a chaplain visit for a woman in the emergency department who, I was told, could possibly miscarry her unborn child. When I entered this woman’s room, she appeared calm. She told me about her family and her hopes, all the while rubbing…
“O Lord, you are our father; we are the clay and you the potter: we are all the work of your hands.” This is “Year B” in our lectionary, when on Sundays we read largely from the Gospel of Mark. Mark has no stories about Jesus’ birth like the Gospels…
Next Sunday ends our liturgical year with the Feast of Christ the King. Matthew paints a scene about a king on his throne, judging who is righteous and who is wicked, and banishing the wicked to “everlasting punishment.” An interesting point in this reading is that the righteous seem not…
Yeast is a tiny little plant, but very little is needed to make bread dough rise. Yeast is not something that commands dough to rise from outside, but becomes part of the dough, disappears in the dough, working from within to raise the dough. This little bit of yeast changes…
Master, I knew you were a demanding person … so out of fear I … buried your talent in the ground. These are the words of the servant in the parable that we hear next Sunday, “The Parable of the Talents.” The context of this parable, from the eschatological section…
In my years as principal of St. Christopher School, I loved to stop by the art room to feel the creative energy and enjoy the incredible masterpieces in the making. Coming into the room and leaving the room, my attention was often drawn to two stickers that hung on the…
The parable we hear this coming Sunday is the one about the 10 maidens waiting for the wedding party to arrive. Five of them did not anticipate that the bridal party might be delayed, so they did not bring enough oil. The early Christians did not know when Christ would…
“What is your opinion? A man had two sons. He came to the first and said, ‘Son, go out and work in the vineyard today.’ He said in reply, ‘I will not,’ but afterwards he changed his mind and went. The man came to the other son and gave the same order.…