Life is interesting. Did you hear that Pope Leo has a personal trainer? Apparently, his trainer didn’t even know he was a cardinal. So, when he was made pope, I can just hear the trainer, “Hey, I know that guy!” Life is interesting for us too. There are sweet moments....

Happy Anniversary!  Two weeks ago St. Victoria celebrated the 20th Anniversary of our New Church.  But this week the worldwide Church celebrates a rather longer anniversary: the 17th-Centennial anniversary of the Council of Nicaea in 325 AD.  Okay, okay ... some of...

In today’s Gospel passage from John 15 Jesus tells us, “As I have loved you so also should you love one another.” It sounds good but how do we put that into practice? I offer one way that can help us do that. It has to do with something we’ve done most every Thursday...

Today on Good Shepherd Sunday we hear how sheep are gathered into the sheepfold and their shepherd knows them and they know their shepherd. And the shepherd is Jesus. That’s what a parish is, a faith community that follows Jesus as the Good Shepherd Here at St....

Before we get going here, let’s talk baseball. And the team with the worst record in baseball right now, the Chicago White Sox. They have only four wins. What if by some miracle they were to win the World Series this year! That’d be one of the more remarkable reversal...

There are some who come to faith just by accepting. And then there those who come to faith by doubting. That’s how Thomas came to faith. But he got there. That’s why we’re all here today, so we can get there. We’re here at Eucharist so we can get to to that point in...

In the Gospel for today we hear the story of the man born blind.  Now, I don’t see that well. But I wasn’t born blind. To be born blind, that takes blindness to a whole new leel. Yet, I’ll admit, my eyes aren’t that good. I was out west skiing with my family.  The...

Life had been hard for the nameless woman at the well that day. We’re told she had been with five different men. With the heartache of all that there was a price to paid, the loss of her reputation. Her past was widely known. In a smalltown word gets around quickly....

On the mountain that day with his disciples something extraordinary happens. Before their very eyes Jesus is transfigured. And it's spectacular! But being his typical self, Peter comes up with what he thinks is a bright idea. Hey Jesus, how about if we build three...

In today’s Gospel, Jesus warns against the perils of hypocrisy.  But what is hypocrisy?  In English, hypocrisy means pretending to be more virtuous or religious than we are.   In Greek, hypocrisy is more generally associated with play-acting in the sense of adopting a...