Texts:Psalm 23 1 Timothy 6:17-19 Warn those who are blessed with this world's goods not to look down on other people. They are not to put their hope in wealth, for it is uncertain. Instead, they are to put their hope in God, who richly provides us with all that we need for our enjoyment.…
All Saints Day — Fare Well
Texts: John 11:32-44 Bhagavad Gita 11:31-33 Tell me who are You in such a fierce form? My salutations to You, O best of gods, be merciful! I wish to understand You, the primal Being, because I do not know Your mission. The Supreme Lord said: I am death, the mighty destroyer of the world, out…
October 18 — Pure Religion
Readings: "Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy." -- Matthew 5:7 "Let your acts be seen by Your servants and Your glory by their children. And may the sweetness of the Master our God be upon us and the work of our hands firmly found for us, and the work of our hands…
Oct. 11 — Satisfaction
Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones says that his hit song, "Satisfaction" came to him in the middle of the night, and that he woke up and recorded the riff and the words on his bedside recorder and fell back to sleep. He later described the tape as: "two minutes of 'Satisfaction' and 40 minutes…
Oct 4 — How do you Treat a Gentile?
Last August, when I was planning our way through the beatitudes I thought that an appropriate complimentary passage to today's beatitude about the meek would be the first verses of Matthew -- the so called genealogy of Jesus. It is as you recall -- rather dry reading as Abraham begets Isaac who begets Jacob who…