Month: May 2016
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Loaves & Fish, and a Little Manual Labor
Body & Blood of the Lord As the schoolyear winds down, students are looking forward to graduation and a few weeks of summer break. Teachers and school administrators are also breathing a sigh of relief. As much as they love their young people, the work load is also extremely time consuming and stressful. And no […]
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Proclaiming God’s Mighty Acts
Pentecost This day of Pentecost calls to mind the Holy Spirit coming down in wind and fire upon the disciples who had gathered with the mother of Jesus in the upper room. Wind and fire. Driving wind and tongues as of fire. I tend to imagine the whole event as more dramatic than the bible […]
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Lemonade & Christian Witness
Ascension of the Lord When life hands you lemons … you make lemonade. That’s what people say, people who know things, probably long before lemonade came in a mix. Nowadays, I put lemon in my water, and on my baked fish. I’ve never made lemonade, not ever with real lemons. But the wise saying is […]
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In the Driver’s Seat
Sixth Sunday of Easter I learned to drive on a farm vehicle on the grounds of a high school seminary in Goshen NY in the mid-1980s. My driving instructor, Brother John, was a heavy-set religious brother with a thick New York accent, a quick wit, a hearty laugh, and a club foot. It was the […]
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