How are you all doing in this hot summer? It might be a little different in the city, but we can feel the vitality of the season—trees lush and green, nights filled with the sounds of insects. This summer, more than ever, is brimming with life. As millions of tourists flock to the city, our […]
Sermon Topic: Bread of Life
The Body of Christ
“How can this man give us his flesh to eat?” In the Name of God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Ghost. Amen. Let me start by telling you a bit about the beginning of Corpus Christi. In the early thirteenth century, in response to a vision, a devout French nun named […]
Evermore Give Us Faith
Collect for the Fourth Sunday in Lent
Gracious Father, whose blessed Son Jesus Christ came down from heaven to be the true bread which giveth life to the world: Evermore give us this bread, that he may live in us, and we in him; who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen. For […]
Faith our outward sense befriending, makes the inward vision clear.
Last week I spent several days at Nashotah House Theological Seminary. At the graduation mass, suddenly, next to me, a colleague’s iPhone started ringing – that particular ringtone that apple invented for Face Time – his wife wanted to talk to him. As I listened to the ringing while he was desperately trying to find […]
She must know more than the notes
Marty Haugen, the American Church Musician, often talks about how music makes connections but especially in the context of the liturgical life of the Church, he says: “We sing to remember who and whose we are. The leader of prayer, the one who reads, and especially the one who sings, must know more than the […]
Becoming food for the world
Bread is a staple food – something I experienced as a boy growing up in Yorkshire on a housing estate in which you found bread at every meal. In some respects that is not dissimilar to any home in France or Italy where bread is offered before even a glass of wine. I remember once […]
You are what you eat.
Ten years ago, a new television series hit the TV screens of Great Britain entitled ‘You are what you eat’. It was a diet program and used shock tactics to convince overweight people to follow a strict diet, including buying all the food that the participants had eaten the week before and dumping it outside […]
Lenten Feast
And the Lord said unto me, Behold, I have put my words in thy mouth. Jer 1.9 Is it so far-fetched to suggest that when the Lord places his word in the prophet’s mouth, that God is feeding his servant? The word of God has long been likened to food. From the prophets like Jeremiah […]
Real Presence, Real Difference
I am the living bread which came down from heaven…and the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh. In the Name of God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Ghost. Amen. You may ask, what is the feast of Corpus Christi, and why are we […]
The Bread of Heaven
In the seventh chapter of the Gospel of Luke, we hear that Jesus has been accused of being a glutton and a drunkard, and, frankly, it’s not hard to see why. Jesus does many things in the Gospels, of course, but we sure do hear a lot about his eating in particular. And the people […]
