From Our Pastor

Once again, our church’s beautiful stained glass windows feature an image that we hear in today’s readings, this time our first reading from the Book of Proverbs.  This reading begins with: “Wisdom has built her house, she has set up her seven columns.”  You’ll find that on the top of the fifth panel on your left in the nave of our church.  The reading goes on to invite us to “come, eat of my food, and drink of the wine I have mixed.”  And, you will notice that under the […]

Have you ever had one of those mornings when you were running a little behind schedule to get to work or school or an important appointment and you just grabbed a piece of toast or maybe skipped breakfast all-together?  Then – well before lunch time, you felt the consequences of that decision.  You noticed your energy level was dropping; it was hard to concentrate, to be productive, to complete the tasks at hand.  And, if you were struggling with any particular matter, you might have felt like Elijah in today’s […]

“Do not work for food that perishes but for the food that endures for eternal life.”  In last Sunday’s Gospel, we heard about Jesus feed a crowd of more than five thousand, and how the people, in their amazement, exclaimed, “This is truly the Prophet, the one who is to come into the world.”  The prophet they were speaking about may have been Elisha who, as we heard in last week’s first reading, fed a crowd of 100 people with just 20 barley loaves and some fresh grain in the […]

“There was a famine in the land.”  That’s how the section just before the passage we hear in today’s first reading begins and it’s important for us to know this as we listen to today’s first reading.  At a time when travel was difficult and transcontinental transport was extremely expensive – you couldn’t go to your local ACME to pick up lamb chops from New Zealand or blueberries from Chile, or anything else you wanted for your next meal – everyone was dependent on the local rains to survive.  […]