HOMILY I Rev. Benjamin Roberts, DMin It all began with an invitation from the Lord Jesus. Walking by the Sea, the master called two sets...

Over the millennia, scholars and preachers have bent over backwards, and twisted themselves into pretzels to “explain” this story. They...

I’ve always been fascinated by words. And I’ve always loved questions. So it should not surprise you that a strange word that is also a...

St. Matthew begins his account of the Transfiguration with a calendar note. “Six days later,” he starts off. 1 This means that we need to...

One summer, my brother and our next-door neighbor became bored with Red Rover and tired of riding bikes. They had already traded every...

Jesus often spoke in parables and metaphors, describing God, God’s action in the world, and our own journey of discipleship in images and...

It was raining that evening, as I recall. Standing at the foot of my grandparents’ graves on the day of my grandmother’s burial. And I as...

“Now, here, you see,” said the Red Queen to Alice, “it takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place. If you want to get...

If the Epistle Lesson sounds familiar this morning, it is because it should be. It is the same witness from St. Paul on Holy Baptism that...

These readings, as different as they may seem at first glance, all fire a warning shot across the bow of discipleship. They remind us...

In full disclosure, I have never preached for the 11th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A. The last time we had this particular liturgical...

Living Bread. Living Father. Living forever. The discussion of living Bread in the Gospel of John comes smack in the middle of Jesus’...

In the early Middle Ages, there was a movement to develop a diagram that would explain the Holy Trinity. How are the Father, Son, and the...

Rev. Michael Connors, CSC, is Associate Professor of the Practice, and Director of the John S. Marten Program in Homiletics and...

One hot summer in Oklahoma City, my Dad began to find little piles of matches, twigs, scorch marks on the driveway where we parked the...

“People of Galilee, why are you standing there looking at the sky?” Imagine the scene… the disciples are agonized-- overcome by the...

I will not leave you orphans. These consoling words of the Lord Jesus, spoken to his disciples at the Last Supper, promised the gift of...

Just before today’s Epistle Lesson begins, a prior image is offered as a way to speak of our life in Christ. That famous text appeals to...

A few years ago, at the height of the pandemic, I dreamed that the pain of isolation, the drive to find a vaccine, the shared wounds of...

This week, instead of a full homily, I am sharing two approaches to preaching the Emmaus story: Paul Scott Wilson’s, Four Page Sermon and...