Tag: hospitality

  • September 25, 2019
    Sixteenth Sunday After PentecostLuke 16:19-31Once upon a time there was a rich man who dressed in fine linen and feasted…

  • September 10, 2019
    Fourteenth Sunday After Pentecost1 Timothy 1:12-17Luke 15:1-10 I suppose this is somewhat atypical, unless you too were a farm kid,…

  • August 28, 2019
    Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost Jeremiah 2:4-13Psalm 81:1, 10-16Hebrews 13:1-8, 15-16Luke 14:1, 7-14 “Where is the Lord?” When we hear that…

  • October 12, 2017
    Nineteenth Sunday After Pentecost Matthew 22:1-14 Sunday evenings, I help set the tables for the urban dinner church where I…

  • August 2, 2017
    Genesis 32:22-31 Psalm 17:1-7, 15 Romans 9:1-5 Matthew 14:13-21 God is serving up some experiential learning this week. I have…

  • June 25, 2014
      Third Sunday After Pentecost Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Matthew 10:40-42 When I first began attending mass several years…

  • December 4, 2013
    Second Sunday of Advent Isaiah 11:1-10 Psalm 72:1-7, 18-19 Romans 15:4-13 Matthew 3:1-12 1. I’ve learned from spending time with…

  • August 6, 2009
    1 Kings 19:4-8; Psalm 34; Ephesians 4:25-5:2; John 6:41-51 Declining an offer of hospitality is, in traditional cultures at least,…

  • January 13, 2009
    Second Sunday After the Epiphany: 1 Samuel 3:1-20; Psalm 139:1-6, 13-18; 1 Corinthians 6:12-20; John 1:43-51 Each year on the second…

  • January 5, 2009
    O Woman, you may keep the gold; the child we seek doesn't need our gold. On love, on love alone…