For email posts, click here to watch. Today is the first Sunday of Advent. Advent means “coming.” These are the four Sundays, the 24 days we wait expectantly for Christmas. Waiting for Jesus to be born in Bethlehem. Waiting for Christ to come again. In Advent the days are shorter and the nights are longer.…
Read more Good Night Dark. Hello Light. (A Children’s Homily)
For email posts, click here to watch online. I want you to imagine a really complicated spider web. Think of one of those you might see outside, on a walk in the woods. It’s big, and has so many lines and layers of silk you almost can’t see through it. I know that sometimes spiderwebs…
For email posts, click here to watch online. I have three children all grown up and as old as your parents! Zach is a filmmaker who lives in Brooklyn. Colleen works for Meals on Wheels America and lives in Washington, D.C., our family’s hometown. And my “baby boy” Jacob (he hates me calling me that!)…
For email posts, click here to watch. Object suggested: Objects of beauty from the natural world. An oil lamp, if available. The picture I selected of the beautiful colored leaves. I think some of the most beautiful things occur in nature. What beautiful sights have you seen in the world around you? Here are a…
For email posts, click here to watch online. The Gospel we heard today is called the Sermon on the Mount, and it’s one our most beautiful stories. Close your eyes and picture it: we have Jesus on the top of the hill, and all the people sitting on the grass below him, and he’s teaching…
For email posts, click here to watch online. I think I have told you before that I love to sing. We can’t sing in church right now but we can sing to the high heavens while we are home or riding in the car or outside in our backyards. Today, I would like you to…
Read more “Jesu, Jesu, fill us with your love.”(A Children’s Homily)
For email posts, click here to watch online. Many people like to write in diaries or journals. Some do it to keep track of what they do everyday. They may also record the daily temperature and weather conditions. Some people take a journal with them when they travel and jot down where they went and…
For email posts, click here to watch online. In the Gospel today, Jesus tells us a story about a party. I’m sure lots of you have been to birthday parties, and at this party everyone is given a special thing to wear. It could be a hat, or a sash, or a robe, but it…
For email posts, click here to watch online. October 4th is an awesome day! October 4th is the Feast of Saint Francis of Assisi. First of all, a feast is a celebration. And a saint is a person whose life shines with the light of God. Francis lived a very LONG time ago. Eight hundred…
For email posts, click here to watch online. Objects suggested: Dishpan, soap, dirty dishes, sponge, dish towel Suppose your mother asked you to wash the dishes and you said, “No,” but later decided to do it. Now suppose that your mother asked your younger sister to wash the dishes and she said, “Yes,” but didn’t do…
