Posts from January 2022

January 13, 2022 “His winnowing fork is in his hand, to clear his threshing floor and to gather the wheat into his granary; but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.” (Luke 3:17) If your mind works anything like mine, when you hear these words from John the Baptist about Jesus, the Messiah, from last Sunday’s gospel reading (Luke 3:15-17,…

January 6, 2022 A blessed new year to you on this day where we celebrate the visit of the magi to the Christ child.  These wise ones dared to follow the signs revealed to them – the glory of the star, the messages of prophecy from scriptures they were not so well versed in, the king of kings and lord of lords present in an infant. The words of our Christmas Eve…

December 23, 2021 Our Advent series, Close to Home, continues as we learn what it is to seek sanctuary and to offer sanctuary and we hear God’s invitation to come and be home. When you feel the world pressing in upon you, where do you go? To whom do you turn or return? Where do you find sanctuary? Mary has received the best news. But it is also news that turns her…