This Sunday is the First Sunday after the Epiphany, and as we have followed the stories of Jesus’s birth and Jesus’s growing up, we finally find ourselves at the beginning of Jesus’s ministry or, rather, right before Jesus starts his ministry, when Jesus meets John in the wilderness and receives from him his baptism. We…

Today is the Second Sunday after Christmas, it concludes the season of Christmas and it also anticipates the beginning of the season of Epiphany, which will start tomorrow, on January 6th, but already we have heard the famous story of the wise men visiting Jesus in Bethlehem. When we think about the Christmas season, what…

But Mary treasured all these words and pondered them in her heart. If you were here two days ago, we asked together this question of how do we know all these details concerning Jesus’s childhood, after all the disciples weren’t there yet, probably weren’t even born when it all started, even for John the Baptist….

As we’re getting so close to Christmas Day, we hear today this passage known as “The Visitation”: pregnant Mary paying a visit to her pregnant cousin Elizabeth. Which is kind of weird if you want my opinion, because these two past weeks we have heard John the Baptist, a full grown up man, preaching in…

Like every Sunday in Advent, we have started our service by lighting our wreath and as you are probably aware, there is a theme associated with each candle we light. The first candle is hope, the second is peace, the third, as of today, is joy, and the last, next Sunday, will be love. Now…

As you can see with the way our church has been so nicely decorated, we enter this Sunday into the time of Advent, those four weeks leading up to Christmas, and it’s also the beginning of our liturgical year. This is also the time when we move to another Gospel, and this year we are…

Today we celebrate the feast of Christ the King, and you may have had an inkling of that as we sang our opening hymn! Crown him Lord of all, this is indeed a powerful and joyful statement to affirm that Christ is our King. The passage of Revelation we have just heard goes even a…

Protect me, O God, for I take refuge in you (Psalm 16:1) If you remember from two weeks ago, when we celebrated All Saints’, we noticed that although the Book of Revelation is the most famous apocalypse of the Bible, there are other apocalypses in the Bible. Indeed apocalypse does not mean “the end of…

To the CBS channel’s credit, they try on occasions to bring good news to their viewers. This past week, between reports on the latest polls and a lot of advertisements, I was able to watch a re-run of their show “Kindness 101” with Steve Hartman. If you don’t know the show, well, each time, Hartman…

Today we celebrate the festival of All Saints and All Souls, and of course it’s the Feast Day of our church because of the name it has been given. What’s important to realize is that All Saints / All Souls is not only about our church, rather it’s about the Church in general, the assembly…