Homily – The Metaphor of Healing

A Meditation on the Metaphor of Healing Romans 6:18-23; St. Matthew 8:5-13 We think about things using metaphor – they frame the way we interact with ideas and define our experience and interaction with them [example]. This is especially true when it comes to our relationship with God and our participation in Him through His Holy […]

Homily: Preferring Religion to God

“Get out of the way and let God do His work!”St. Luke 13:10-17 In today’s Gospel, we have an instructive encounter between Christ and the religious authorities.  Christ was teaching in the synagogue and in the midst of the usual activities or scripture reading, psalmody, lecturing, and discussion, something unexpected happened: Christ healed a woman […]