This Easter season, we’re going to spend some time reading from the Book of Acts: During our Bible study on Wednesday for those who are able to attend, and also every Sunday at church. You may have noticed that this morning, we actually didn’t have a lesson from the Old Testament. Rather each Sunday until…

So there is this (true) story about a preacher who gets super stressed every year about his Easter sermon. He’s super stressed not only because it’s his big day, this is this one time of the year when his church is completely full, but also because he has this kind of annoying parishioner who only…

Because we celebrate the Eucharist so often in our churches, basically every Sunday, I wonder if we don’t have a tendency to forget that it’s this one time thing in the Gospel. This is Jesus’s last supper with his disciples, his farewell dinner right before he is arrested and put to death. And so if…

The passage of the Gospel we have heard this morning is considered as one of the most beautiful stories Jesus has ever told. One of the most beautiful if not the most beautiful one. It is known as the “Parable of the Prodigal Son”. “Prodigal”, of course, should not be confounded with “prodigy”, because it…

One of the things I said I wanted to explore with you during this Lent was the many ways in which the Scriptures teach us how to deal with evil, to resist and overcome evil. In this regard, I think we have a great example of that with this passage from the New Testament, where…

If you were at church last week, you probably have noticed the stark contrast we have between the Gospel we have heard then and the passage we have today: From the mountaintop and the glory of the Transfiguration to the wilderness, where we encounter a famished and exhausted Jesus. But we’re actually reading backwards: If…

Today is the Last Sunday after the Epiphany and, as it is the use, we hear the story of the Transfiguration. There are actually two ways of looking at this story, and the lectionary gives us the option to do either one of them: We can, if you will, read the “theatrical version”, the short…

So it does not get any easier, does it? At least, that could be our first thought when we hear this passage from the Gospel we have heard today. We started reading last week from “Luke’s beatitudes”, and we learned how Jesus asked his disciples to accept to become poor and hungry, sad and rejected…

I guess there’s a good chance that when you heard the Gospel this morning, you immediately thought to yourself: Oh we know this one, and then realized suddenly that no, maybe not, or at least that the text sounded different from how you remembered it. Well, there is a good reason for that. The passage…

So I thought we would take a break from the lectionary to celebrate today the conversion of St Paul which feast day is on January 25th. It seems actually very fitting to celebrate Paul’s conversion during our season of the Epiphany, since even when we know very little about the man, most of us have…