An Episcopal Priest's Sermons, Prayers, and Reflections on Life, Becoming Human, and Discovering Our Divinity
The feast of Christmas is the feast of the mystical Body, for it is through the Incarnation that men have become members of Christ. Whatever theological interpretation we give to this great scriptural and patristic affirmation of our incorporation into…
Read More Christmas – The Gift of Union
This is the world into which Jesus is born. Come quickly, Lord Jesus. For the yoke of their burden, and the bar across their shoulders, the rod of their oppressor, you have broken as on the day of Midian. For…
Read More Boots and a Blue Bra, a Modern Nativity Scene
How could the human race go to God if God had not come to us? How should we free ourselves from our birth into death if we had not been born again according to faith by a new birth generously…
Read More Irenaeus and the Purpose of the Incarnation
The collect and readings for the Fourth Sunday of Advent may be found here. The following sermon focuses on Luke 1:26-28. What do you want to be when you grow up? It’s a common question. It was probably asked of…
Read More Learning to Say Yes – A Sermon on the Annunciation, Luke 1:26-38, Advent 4B
With the First Sunday in Advent the Marian hymn following compline changed from the Salve Regina to the Alma Redemptoris Mater. This will be used until the Feast of the Presentation. There are two concluding collects: one for the Season of…
Read More Alma Redemptoris Mater
I do not venerate matter, I venerate the fashioner of matter, who became matter for my sake and accepted to dwell in matter and through matter worked my salvation, and I will not cease from reverencing matter, through which my…
Read More Why Matter Matters – St. John of Damascus
"Christian faith is not about some god who is an abstract presence somewhere else but about the living presence of God here and now, in this world, in exactly this world, as we know it and touch it and smell…
Read More Making the Gospel Relevant
William Porcher DuBose (April 11, 1836 to August 18, 1918) was an American Anglican priest and theologian. He spent most of his life as a professor at the School of Theology, The University of the South, in Sewanee, Tennessee. In…
Read More WIlliam Porcher DuBose, Episcopal Theologian
Today, March 25, is the Feast of the Annunciation, the day the angel Gabriel announced to Mary that she would give birth to the Son of God. This feast interrupts the Lenten season even as Gabriel interrupted Mary's life with…
Read More The Feast of the Annunciation, Lent Interrupted
The collect and readings for Christmas may be found here. Every one of us could probably tell the Christmas story. We know it well. A young virgin named Mary conceives a child by the Holy Spirit. She and her betrothed,…
Read More The Manger Is Not In Bethlehem – A Christmas Sermon On Luke 2:1-20
Interrupting the Silence 