Called to Eucharistic Life

In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. Amen. Given the growth and spread of Christianity throughout the last two millennia Given Christianity’s status as a world religion Given its presence and its position in our culture, As well as the privileges, perils and problems that appertain thereunto […]

Little Apocalypse

I am of an age where my upbringing was awash with apocalyptic movies. Whether it was an earthly threat like a great flood or climate cataclysm, or an unearthly threat like aliens invading or the dead rising from the grave, some blockbuster of this ilk was always being trotted out. Some movies, like War of […]

In the Meantime

Grace be to you and peace from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ, who is, and who was, and who is to come. Amen. Today’s special Procession takes us all the way through the Advent season, covering all its themes, in a single service. You could call it a Catechism, an Outline […]

Angels and the Eschaton

In the Name of God: Father, Son and Holy Ghost. Amen. At today’s Evensong, we mark the Feast of St. Michael and All Angels, and we hear two readings about the end of days: one is from Daniel; the other from the Gospel of Mark. And the theme of these readings is trust. Usually, when […]