Homilies from January, 2021

Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Deuteronomy 18:15-20; 1 Corinthians 7:32-35; Mark 1:21-28 In The Gulag Archipelago, the classic memoir of his time as a dissident and political prisoner in the former Soviet Union, Nobel laureate Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (d....

Third Sunday in Ordinary Time

Jonah 3:1-5. 10; 1 Corinthians 7:29-31; Mark 1:14-20 In Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous short story, A Scandal in Bohemia, Sherlock Holmes provides his assistant Dr. Watson with an important lesson on the difference...

Second Sunday of Ordinary Time

1 Samuel 3:3b-10, 19; 1 Corinthians 6:13c-15a, 17-20; John 1:35-42 Our Pastor at St. Mark’s, Fr. John, asked me to come today because he has been called up with his wing of the Air National Guard to go to Washington,...

Baptism of the Lord | El Bautismo del Señor

Lake-huron Isaiah 55:1-11; 1 John 5:1-9; Mark 1:7-11 Wallace Stevens (+1955), who is undoubtedly the only lawyer and insurance company executive to win a Pulitzer Prize for collection of poetry, once wrote that “Human nature is...