The Fourth Sunday of Advent is Mary’s Sunday in both Year B and Year C of the lectionary. In Year A, the First Gospel is featured and,...

We offer a Homiletical Exegesis and two sample homilies for Advent Week 3. We hope these resources are a blessing to you. Of the three...

“I’m not worthy. Not worthy to touch his sandal straps.” Most Americans won’t relate to this statement from the John the Baptist in...

I am baptizing you with water, but one mightier than I is coming. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. Fire. A blaze can...

“Make straight the way of the Lord! “Prepare a highway for our God!” That’s the theme of today’s sermon from St. John the Baptist; a...

The Third Evangelist begins his birth narratives by simply locating these events and Divine purposes: “In the days of King Herod of Judea...

Reflecting ancient church tradition, the First Sunday of Advent focuses primarily on the Second Advent of Christ when God will come and...

The trial scene is so familiar—Jesus there before Pilate. Right off, Pilate raises the big question: “Are you the King of the Jews?” ...

At that time there shall arise Michael, the great prince; it shall be a time unsurpassed in distress. But those whose names are written...

Jesus was once again in the Temple during that Holy Week. He was sitting and watching people tossing their offerings into large brass...

When I was a girl, I hated my hair. Seriously... Hated it. You see, when I was growing up, every girl dreamed of looking like Peggy...

Last week’s gospel focused on two apostles who were brothers, James and John. They were known as the Sons of Thunder. Today we encounter...

Some people live their lives with a sense of dread. The world they inhabit feels unpredictable and unsafe. Even on sunny days, they scan...

It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Ever since Jesus...

James Weldon Johnson tells the backdrop of our creation story in the voice of the folk tradition of African American preachers: He looked...

He’s not one of us, Jesus. They’re outside the tent, Moses. She’s in a different parish, Father. My Lord, stop them! There is something...

“He stood the child in their midst, and said to his disciples, ‘Whoever receives a child such as this in my name, welcomes me.’” We’ve...

But who do you say that I am? She had gone to church her whole life. The flicker of candles and the smell of beeswax; the light glancing...

Jesus had completed his ministry among the Gentiles after the healing of the Syrophoenician Woman’s daughter in Tyre. At least that is...

When her sons were little, she lived in a neighborhood and worshipped in a parish that honed competitive parenting to a fine art. The...