Interrupting the Silence

Tag: St. Joseph

  • What Will You Do With Your Fear In 2022? – A Sermon On Matthew 2:13-15, 19-23

    What Will You Do With Your Fear In 2022? – A Sermon On Matthew 2:13-15, 19-23

    So we’re two days into the new year, what are you thinking about 2022 this morning? Will 2022 be different from and better than 2021? I don’t know but I suspect that’s a question many of us are asking and wondering about, and with good reason.  2021 began with an attack on our nation’s capitol Read more

  • Holiness Always Wins – A Sermon on Matthew 2:13-15, 19-23

    Holiness Always Wins – A Sermon on Matthew 2:13-15, 19-23

    “Now after the wise men had left….” How strange that that is how today’s gospel (Matthew 2: 13-15, 19-23; Second Sunday after Christm) begins. We hear of their departure before we hear of their arrival. The wise men left before they’ve even arrived. At least that’s what happens as the readings are presented to us Read more

  • The Scandal We Long For – A Sermon on Matthew 1:18-25

    The Scandal We Long For – A Sermon on Matthew 1:18-25

    What is the most shocking part of today’s gospel (Matthew 1:18-25, Advent 4A)? What’s the thing that makes you wonder whether it really happened the way Matthew describes? What’s the hardest part to believe? For most people, I suspect, the thing that raises questions, controversy, and debate is Mary’s virginity. Aren’t virginity and pregnancy mutually Read more

  • The Choice, A Reflection on the Feast of the Holy Innocents

    Just a few days into Christmas and the liturgical calendar confronts us with the Feast of the Holy Innocents. “When Herod saw that he had been tricked by the wise men, he was infuriated, and he sent and killed all the children in and around Bethlehem who were two years old or under” (Mt. 2:16). The Read more

  • The Choice – A Reflection on the Feast of the Holy Innocents

    Just a few days into Christmas and the liturgical calendar confronts us with the Feast of the Holy Innocents. “When Herod saw that he had been tricked by the wise men, he was infuriated, and he sent and killed all the children in and around Bethlehem who were two years old or under” (Mt. 2:16). Read more

  • St. Thomas and St. Joseph, Faithful Doubters

    How interesting that today, December 21, just four days before Christmas, we celebrate the Feast of St. Thomas, the Apostle. Think of Thomas and most will think about “Doubting Thomas.” Before we can get to the Nativity of our Lord, the manifestation of the incarnation, we must first face Thomas and his “doubts” about the resurrection. Read more

  • A Sermon for Christmas 2 – Caring for the Holy

    The collect and readings for today, the Second Sunday after Christmas, may be found here. The gospel appointed for today is Matthew 2:13-15, 19-23. I included the omitted section, verses 16-18. 13Now after they had left, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, “Get up, take the child and Read more

  • Feast of St. Joseph

    Today, March 19, the Episcopal Church celebrates the life and faith of St. Joseph. St. Joseph was raised up to be the guardian of God’s incarnate Son and the spouse of his virgin mother. The gospel reading for this feast is Luke 2:41-52, the story of Jesus in the temple at the age of twelve. Read more