When the day of Pentecost had come, the disciples were all together in one place. Pentecost, the great feast of the church’s founding, comes on Sunday. It is always a liminal sort of festival; it comes in near proximity to the end of the school year, and at the threshold of the...
Q. Is God’s activity limited to these rites? A. God [is not limited] to these rites; they are patterns of countless ways by which God uses material things to reach out to us. An Outline of the Faith [“The Catechism”], BCP, p. 861 We are going back to...
This Sunday brings around the familiar image of the Good Shepherd. We hear the comforting words of the twenty-third psalm again; we hear Jesus describe himself in John’s gospel as the “gate for the sheep.” And he tells us something more about what it means to be a good...