Preaching Notes – Sunday 18 August 2024
Today we come to the very clear part of Jesus’ long discourse that is linked to the Eucharist (John 6:51-58). Throughout the discourse Jesus insists
Category: Pastor’s Pondering
Preaching Notes – Sunday, 11 August 2024
The food God graciously provides the exhausted and terrified prophet Elijah in our First Reading (1 Kings 19:4-8), is another example of Old Testament foreshadowing
Feast: Jesus’ Transfiguration – August 6
O Sweet Jesus, grant that your grace – power – may triumph in me and empower me to persevere through life’s trials with eyes set
Preaching Notes – Sunday, 4 August 2024
Today is Sunday #2 of our 5 consecutive Sundays reading together select excepts from John 6. Front and center for us is the deep misunderstanding
Preaching Notes (Sun) 28 July 2024
The Gospel writer John notes that the 5 barely loaves and fish came from a little boy. From a worldly point-of-view it may as well
Preaching Notes (Sun) 21 July 2024
Ignatius’ EXAMEN is a prayer practice that helps us find God in all aspects of daily living. So powerful is this prayer practice that Ignatius
St Thomas More Quote (15 July 2024)
“The times are never so bad that a good man cannot live in them.” + St. Thomas More (1478-1535)
Authority Over Unclean Spirits – (Sun) 14 July 2024
Despite our deep flaws, America remains that shinning city on the hill. We are a people particularly blessed by God. And with divine blessing we
Pastor's Pondering
Jesus Speaks God’s Word
Taking place around 1400 B.C., God announces through Moses that there is going to be a future prophet and we will listen to him: “I
Pastor's Pondering
Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness (July 4, 2024)
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that