Fr Robert Randall McDonald Bagwell3 days ago2 minResurrection + Transcending DeathThe Orthodox have a hymn they sing as the Pasch – the Great Vigil of Easter. It is called the Troparion and roughly in all of its...
Fr Robert Randall McDonald BagwellApr 157 min"Tetelesti" It is FinishedGood Friday + Year C Fr. Robert R.M. Bagwell+ 15, April 2022 Isaiah 52:13-53:12 ...
Fr Robert Randall McDonald BagwellApr 132 minVia DolorosaThis week the Church in the West has the solemn privilege to commemorate the events that won our salvation. As we have been shocked by...
Fire of God Musings Fr B+Apr 61 min"Mea Culpa"How appropriate that after trying for months to get back into this website editor, only to discover human error---and I'm the error! Mea...
Fr Robert Randall McDonald BagwellSep 17, 20212 minRebirth of Hope in Dying Secular HopelessnessSeptember 2021 + After the Co-Vid death (like the Black Death in the Middle Ages) we have come face to face with stark reality--life is...
Fr Robert Randall McDonald BagwellMar 1, 20202 minOffended? A national plague...Everyone is offended! Have you noticed? Are you offended? Are you constantly taking offense at people? At media? At your employer or...
Fr Robert Randall McDonald BagwellJan 12, 20203 minRight in your face - GodThe Epiphany comes the thirteenth day after Christmass when the Western Church celebrates the arrival of the three wise men. Scripture...
Fr Robert Randall McDonald BagwellDec 15, 20193 min Maranatha! He is coming! Maranatha! Perhaps you have heard that word or seen it on the marquee of a church. It is a word that means “coming”. From the earliest...
Fr Robert Randall McDonald BagwellDec 10, 20194 minA Pilgrim: Pursuing the Truth Giving Thanks in a World of Ingratitude We now celebrate again a National Holiday (Christians read that as Holy Day) called “Thanksgiving”. This was in the context of a group...
Fr Robert Randall McDonald BagwellAug 31, 20192 minSpoiler Alert! Have you ever longed for a community of those who believe in God and name Jesus as God’s Messiah, who all know that they are not nor ever...
Fr Robert Randall McDonald BagwellJun 9, 20193 minFire!Fire!In the Year of Grace 1654, Monday, the 23rd of November Feast of St. Clement, Pope and Martyr, and others in the Martyrology. Vigil...
Fr Robert Randall McDonald BagwellMay 9, 20192 minThe Lord is Risen Indeed! Alleluia! Alleluia! Christ is Risen! The Lord is Risen Indeed! Alleluia!
Fr Robert Randall McDonald BagwellMar 6, 20193 minLent: Such a dreary word...or is it?Lent: what is it? Liturgical Christians, especially those from the Western catholic tradition, have no doubt experienced the Church...
Fr Robert Randall McDonald BagwellFeb 16, 20197 minThe Greatest of these...is LoveLove: a word often used in trivial ways. “I love sweets!” “I love that movie!” “I love football!” But is that love? Isn’t that really...
Fr Robert Randall McDonald BagwellJan 23, 20192 minUnity without Uniformity: I will remain in the world no longer, but they are still in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them by the power...
Fr Robert Randall McDonald BagwellDec 31, 20182 min Christmass through Epiphany AD 2019 + On a Mission for God “You must be born-again” said Jesus to the learned Nicodemus in John chapter 3. Everyone who has faith in Jesus Christ for salvation and...
Fr Robert Randall McDonald BagwellDec 6, 20183 minThe Long Prophesied Machiach – Messiah ADVENT ! COMING ! In Advent, we celebrate a prophecy that began when God addressed the couple in the “proto-evangelium” the fore-gospel...
Fr Robert Randall McDonald BagwellDec 3, 20183 minThe Advent of ADVENT: Whaaaat?It’s coming, it’s coming, it’s here! Or is it still coming? It’s BOTH. In the Catholic Kalendar, observed in some fashion by the whole...
Fr Robert Randall McDonald BagwellNov 26, 20182 minAnglicanism? Whaaaat's So Special?📷 Anglicanism is known for the via media, which is a Latin term that means “the middle way.” The middle way allows us to synthesize...
Fr Robert Randall McDonald BagwellNov 25, 20180 minWhen we believe that our Present troubles are somehow new? Remember the People of God since Day ONE