Wednesday, March 18, 2020 | Reflections
I met Sarah one summer, just as she began to process some horrible childhood events. We walked many, many miles together on those summer evenings. I listened as Sarah shared every last detail of her stories. With an ordained friend, we shared eucharist one evening. As...
Tuesday, March 17, 2020 | Featured, Reflections
Prayers and meditations from the clergy of the Episcopal Diocese of Louisiana. During these stressful times of the COVID-19 pandemic, we pray for peace and healing for our brothers and sisters across the world. May God’s peace be with you. Be well. April 11,...
Tuesday, March 17, 2020 | Reflections
What God reveals in Jesus is not a new idea or something wholly different from ways God has acted before. God has been at the same work all along. Today’s psalm is full of the stories of God’s provision, compassion, and presence through history. In our g….(View...
Monday, March 16, 2020 | Reflections
In reading this story about the privileged and the poorest, we have much to learn from both angles of view: one lesson is to comprehend the power of God in Jesus as generative and nurturing. Another perspective—as I heard one woman say—The beauty of standing up is...
Sunday, March 15, 2020 | Reflections
The theological dialogue between Jesus and this unnamed Samaritan woman is a beautiful example of the compassionate inclusivity of the One whose kingdom is coming and is already among and with us. Jesus engages with someone that his family and religio-cultural...
Saturday, March 14, 2020 | Reflections
Some of us in more “advanced” parts of the world forget the deep mystery of the miraculous, especially when it comes to healings and exorcisms. Mark describes four exorcisms and refers to many more, showing us the ways Jesus points to the cosmic battle with Satan....
Friday, March 13, 2020 | Reflections
Jesus is telling us parables about how faith is planted and grown, fed mysteriously with the light, soil, and water of God’s being. The disciples hear these parables and are a part of the inner circle that hears the secrets of the kingdom explained privately....
Thursday, March 12, 2020 | Reflections
From the Archives: January 20, 1982A great deal of what passes for Evangelism in America is in fact Revival. The author of Hebrews would not think much of this. Here, the author expresses the conviction that rehearsing the ABC’s of Christi….(View this reading...
Wednesday, March 11, 2020 | Message from Bishop Thompson, Reflections
This past Sunday’s gospel had to do with Nicodemus’ going to Jesus in the night. Nicodemus is the patron saint for curiosity. Several times he seeks Jesus because there is something this young rabbi Nicodemus wants/needs to know. He is curious enough to risk his...
Wednesday, March 11, 2020 | Reflections
Parables present us with glimpses into the kingdom of God, where the ordinary of our lives throws light on the extraordinary. Jesus says that his disciples know the secret gift of the kingdom; they see it in his miracles, hear it in his teaching, and feel it in his...
Tuesday, March 10, 2020 | Community Ministry, Reflections
Week Two: Care for Creation (a franciscan spirituality of the earth) by Ilia Delio, O.S.F – Keith Douglas Warner , O.F.M – Pamela Wood Chapter 3: Embodying the Incarnate Word in Creation & Chapter 4: Ecology of the Canticle of Creation by...
Tuesday, March 10, 2020 | Reflections
Today we hear the scribes from Jerusalem mistake the Holy Spirit’s work in the life of Jesus as being demonic. The scribes recognize that Jesus must be drawing on great power to perform exorcisms but then gravely misidentify its source. Jesus does not behave as they...
Monday, March 9, 2020 | Reflections
Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians is a letter of exhortation and pastoral counsel written in his apostolic authority and drawing attention to his example and conventional wisdom. He uses every way he can to talk to the proud Corinthians—reprimand, irony, even...
Sunday, March 8, 2020 | Reflections
The meaning of faith is woven throughout our readings today. Faith—not works—marks our response to God who loves us. Faithful grace and graceful faith are how we are to live in the knowledge of the companionship of Jesus. The One who shows us God’s grace is the One...
Saturday, March 7, 2020 | Reflections
Sabbath: a day of religious observance and abstinence from work. That’s the dictionary definition at least, but Genesis shows us the connection between sabbath as gift and rest, given to us by our Creator. Sabbath is a time to be renewed as people of God, a time to...
