Human beings are people of waiting. We wait 9 months to be born typically; we wait for the weekend, our birthdays, the day to be over, an...

All Saints-tide Now as we again approach the end of the Church Kalendar year it is also the time to reconsider the Church Year.Soon will...

We read in the gospel of John: “Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and...

Today is Pentecost! It is 50 days since Easter. It is the Jewish Feast of Weeks (or Shavu´ot) seven weeks of seven days since...

The 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...

Good Friday + Year C Fr. Robert R.M. Bagwell+ 15, April 2022 Isaiah 52:13-53:12 ...

This week the Church in the West has the solemn privilege to commemorate the events that won our salvation. As we have been shocked by...

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...

September 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...

Everyone is offended! Have you noticed? Are you offended? Are you constantly taking offense at people? At media? At your employer or...

The Epiphany comes the thirteenth day after Christmass when the Western Church celebrates the arrival of the three wise men. Scripture...

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...

We now celebrate again a National Holiday (Christians read that as Holy Day) called “Thanksgiving”. This was in the context of a group...

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...

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...

Alleluia! Christ is Risen! The Lord is Risen Indeed! Alleluia!

Lent: what is it? Liturgical Christians, especially those from the Western catholic tradition, have no doubt experienced the Church...

Love: 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...

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...

“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...