Peace be with you. Friends, on the Second Sunday of Advent, the Church gives us the great Advent figure of John the Baptist. Can I give you an image now to meditate on during Advent? Go online and look up "Chartres Cathedral north porch statue [...]

Peace be with you, and Happy New Year's Day. We come today to the beginning of the liturgical year, the First Sunday of Advent. What is it about Advent? I've always loved it. To me, it's a very spiritually powerful season. And it might be because [...]

Jesus said that the kingdom is near us and that the kingdom is in us, and yet our feet are not yet in it. So if you ever wonder why it is we are strangers in this world, well, because our citizenship is in a different place and here we are and very [...]

Turn with me please to the book of 1 Peter and chapter 1, 1 Peter and chapter 1. You're going all the way deep in your New Testament, and I'm going to start reading at verse 1 through verse 13. Let it sink in as we go. "From Peter, an apostle [...]