Homily

Attitude of Gratitude One of the resources that I follow on social media is one known as Busted Halo. This is a resource from the Paulist Fathers in the Roman Catholic Church in the US. Their website describes their ministry as: Busted Halo is a ministry of The Paulist Fathers. The Paulist Fathers are a…

Have you not heard? Read today’s gospel scripture → Matthew 21: 33-42 PLEASE NOTE: This homily contains direct and indirect references to the Gospel passage. Having it fresh in your mind will be helpful for understanding and reflection. http://anglicanchurchbuckhorn.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Pentecost-18A.mp3 Listen to this homily Jesus tells yet another parable. And listening this time – apart from…

Jesus holds up a mirror Read today’s gospel scripture Matthew 21:23-32 http://anglicanchurchbuckhorn.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Pentecost-17A.mp3 Listen to this message There’s quite a tussle of wills and words in the gospel passage for today. The religious leaders pummel Jesus with questions. “By what authority are you doing these acts?”, they ask. Just a while before this Jesus had cast the…

Not about when you show up Read today’s gospel scripture Matthew 20: 1-16  http://anglicanchurchbuckhorn.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Pentecost-16A.mp3 Listen to this message This is the homily delivered today (Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost, 20 September) at St Luke’s, Peterborough.  There was no written text so I warmly invite you to listen to the homily on the audio file above. This…

Freed by forgiving Today’s gospel scripture Matthew 18:21-35 http://anglicanchurchbuckhorn.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Pentecost-15A.mp3 Listen to this message Then Peter came and said to him, “Lord, if another member of the church sins against me, how often should I forgive? As many as seven times?” Jesus said to him, “Not seven times, but, I tell you, seventy-seven times. “For this…

Two or three gathered together http://anglicanchurchbuckhorn.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Pentecost-14-A.mp3 Listen to this message Jesus said, “If another member of the church sins against you, go and point out the fault when the two of you are alone. If the member listens to you, you have regained that one. But if you are not listened to, take one or…

Training for the Kingdom http://anglicanchurchbuckhorn.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Pentecost-8-A.mp3 Listen to this message Jesus put before them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed that someone took and sowed in his field; it is the smallest of all the seeds, but when it has grown it is the greatest of shrubs and becomes a tree,…

Weeds among the Wheat Read today’s gospel Matthew 13: 24-30, 36-43 http://anglicanchurchbuckhorn.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Pentecost-7-A.mp3 Listen to this message The simple and stark reality is that the world is made up of good and evil, light and darkness, brightness and shadow, wheat and weeds. As Jesus says, weeds grow among the wheat. And when he was speaking in…

The Soil Within Read today’s gospel scripture Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23 http://anglicanchurchbuckhorn.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Pentecost-6-A.mp3 Listen to this message A man goes out to sow. And as he walks, he casts the seeds far and wide. The seeds land every which way. Some on the trodden path, some in the rocks, some among the thorns. But, as he walks…

Wisdom vindicated by her deeds Read today’s Epistle and Holy Gospel: Romans 7:15-25a;  Matthew 11: 16-19, 25-30 http://anglicanchurchbuckhorn.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Pentecost-5-A.mp3 Listen to this message A person could easily ask these days, just what exactly is the world coming to? I mean just take a look around. What about this younger generation? They flock to the beach in…