The Fourth Sunday After Epiphany
This is a Gospel that requires some serious unpacking. We don’t do it justice if we just stick with “Oh well, a prophet just can’t make...
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Father Nicholas Lang
- Jan 23, 2022
- 4 min
The Third Sunday After Epiphany
After his baptism in the Jordan, Jesus begins to move about Galilee and his reputation grows quickly. When he returns to his hometown,...
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Father Nicholas Lang
- Jan 16, 2022
- 3 min
The Second Sunday After Epiphany
When Johnny Carson hosted the Tonight Show he interviewed an eight-year-old boy who was asked to appear because he had rescued two...
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Father Nicholas Lang
- Jan 9, 2022
- 4 min
First Sunday After Epiphany
One of the favorite images of Christmas is that of the Magi travelling by camel through a star lit night. One brilliant star dominates...
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Father Nicholas Lang
- Jan 2, 2022
- 4 min
The Feast of The Holy Innocents
The Massacre of the Innocents is the biblical narrative of infanticide by Herod the Great, the Roman-appointed King of the Jews....
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Father Nicholas Lang
- Dec 24, 2021
- 4 min
Christmas Eve
But the angel said to them, "Do not be afraid; for see-- I am bringing you good news of great joy for all the people: to you is born this...
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Father Nicholas Lang
- Dec 19, 2021
- 4 min
The Fourth Sunday of Advent
My bad. My opener in this week’s Constant Contact talked about the Annunciation. Well, that’s the Gospel on the fourth Sunday of...
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Father Nicholas Lang
- Dec 12, 2021
- 4 min
The Third Sunday in Advent
“Rejoice!” so we are told today. It’s a directive we find in two of the lessons, the canticle, and our communion anthem. It’s not a word...
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Father Nicholas Lang
- Nov 28, 2021
- 4 min
Advent
In his Novel, Enduring Love, author Ian McEwan tells about an Oxford professor, a very rational and modern sort of man, who liked his...
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Father Nicholas Lang
- Nov 21, 2021
- 4 min
Christ the King
In the Name of our God who is all kindness, Christ who reigns in justice, and the Holy Spirit who recreates our every moment. Amen The...
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Father Nicholas Lang
- Nov 14, 2021
- 4 min
The Twenty-fifth Sunday After Pentecost
Scary stuff in this Gospel! It is not a pleasant reading. Who wants to focus on the signs of the end times? Historians think that...
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Father Nicholas Lang
- Nov 7, 2021
- 4 min
The Twenty-fourth Sunday After Pentecost
As the coins clatter away Her heart beats with fear and joy. The widow flings her poverty In the face of power. When you heard the...
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Father Nicholas Lang
- Oct 31, 2021
- 5 min
The Feast of All Saints
A man was reflecting with his children on his college experience. “One day,” he said, “our professor gave us a pop quiz. I was a serious...
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Father Nicholas Lang
- Oct 24, 2021
- 4 min
Twenty-Second Sunday After Pentecost
There was a TV commercial for an eye doctor in Connecticut in which a patient talks about how she shared with her doctor her fear of...
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Father Nicholas Lang
- Oct 17, 2021
- 4 min
Twenty-First Sunday After Pentecost
A married couple in their early 70’s were celebrating their 50th Wedding Anniversary in a quiet, romantic restaurant. Suddenly, a tiny...
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Father Nicholas Lang
- Oct 10, 2021
- 4 min
Twentieth Sunday After Pentecost
In the Name of the God of abundance and generosity: Creator, Redeemer, and Sustainer. Amen. “You’re asking way too much of me.” Have you...
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Father Nicholas Lang
- Oct 3, 2021
- 4 min
Nineteenth Sunday After Pentecost
The Old Testament and Gospel readings today are probably more than you bargained for. You might be thinking that it would have been a...
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Jennifer Hudson
- Sep 19, 2021
- 4 min
The Seventeenth Sunday After Pentecost
The musical Annie, set during the Great Depression and based on the comic strip Little Orphan Annie, was one of my favorite musicals as a...
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Father Nicholas Lang
- Sep 12, 2021
- 3 min
The Sixteenth Sunday After Pentecost
Comedian George Burns once said that the secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending; and to have the two as...
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Father Nicholas Lang
- Sep 5, 2021
- 4 min
The Fifteenth Sunday After Pentecost
Deafness is certainly no joke but for many people it is a natural phenomenon which is, regrettably, part of the aging process. Nowadays,...
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