Some weeks ago there was yet another mass shooting. Robert Bowers murdered 11 souls at Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh. He was then found and taken to the hospital. And as Robert was being wheeled into the emergency room, he yelled ‘death to all Jews’. The nurse caring for him felt those words painfully […]
Just as the sun was rising the other morning, I stepped out onto our deck here at the church to fill my lungs with fresh air. The previous last couple of days, I had been watching the trees in the back of the church-so beautifully golden and ready to loose their leaves. I had thought that because […]
Only those who pass through the school of suffering can absorb the divine spark into their soul, the spark which will be sealed in them as the seed of a new cosmos… Neither does the inner light spring simply from suffering well borne. A new motif emerges which has been taken up and treasured through the whole history of Christendom: “The blood of Christ makes man pure and bright.” […]
The sun shining above us can be experienced in vastly different ways. One of them is the sun in its majestic and cosmic quality – it’s light so bright it is impossible to look at it. Its power so strong nothing can withstand it. On the other side we experience the sun as the blessed light of […]
To Burn Brightly In our gospel this week (Rev 12), we see the woman clothed with the Sun. The woman clothed with the sun is a picture of our true humanity. This is an image of what all human souls are called to become. With the warmth and light of Christ permeating our soul, we are all […]
The trees around here are so beautiful in fall. They have put on color, they have clothed themselves in the garments of red, yellow, orange, rust. And this garment of color, this clothing of beauty is put on just as we enter the coldest and darkest time of year. And as we too enter more and […]
The leaves are turning, the cold is coming, everything in nature is now moving toward hibernation, falling away, everything in nature is moving toward death. Will we too follow the course of nature? For the Michaelmas question is, will our spirits also follow outer nature, fall like the leaves into this dying? Or will we […]
In our Michaelmas gospel this week (Matthew 22) we hear that we have all been invited to the holy wedding, that we must not forget to receive the wedding garment when we arrive and most importantly, we must not be found speechless. And this gospel, this wisdom parable that Christ tells, it lives in our hearts – […]
The Weekly Word I was speaking with a friend of mine the other day who is the CEO, Chief Executive Officer, of a successful company. And I asked him, ‘What makes a good CEO, what makes a good leader of a company?’ He said, ‘The secret is, whenever something goes wrong, a good leader takes responsibility for it […]
A great Saint once had a vision, “ I saw the devil’s snares set like traps all over the earth, and I groaned and said, “What can pass through them, what is it that can protect us?” And I heard a holy voice softly saying, “Humility, Humility.” It is astounding to think that our […]
