Reflections in Christ

Though we commonly call today “Forgiveness Sunday,” liturgically it is known as Cheesefare Sunday, or the Expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise. As…

A few weeks ago, on Zacchaeus Sunday, we marked the end of the Sundays after Pentecost. Then, with the feast of the Meeting of the Lord, we…

Perhaps the most obvious lesson of today’s Gospel is this: no matter how far we have strayed from home, the Father is always ready to run…

Today we read the Gospel of the Publican and the Pharisee, and of course, if we must choose one, we should strive to follow the way…

The feast of the Meeting of the Lord marks the end of the Nativity season. Forty days ago, we greeted the newborn King with the…

Yesterday was the final Sunday “after Pentecost,” when we read the last of the Sunday lections from Saint Luke’s Gospel. And ...

In my previous blog piece, “Why I Am a Christian (Part 1)” I examined the question of why one should believe in the physical Resurrection of Jesus from the dead. I looked at the essential historical…

Many years ago, when I was tucking my eldest daughter into bed, she asked me a question:  “Dad, why do we believe in the Resurrection?”  I have always taught both…

In 1956 an American game show debuted called “To Tell the Truth”.  Each round of the game introduced three people all claiming to be the same person, and a team of panelists would ask them questions.  Those pretending to be…

In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. I greet all of you with joy on the occasion of the patronal feast of our cathedral, the feast of Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker. Saint Nicholas is known the world over; in some ways…