Author: Phrogge

Last evening in response to yesterday’s "Healing"  I got an email from a friend about someone who feels hurt by the catholic religion. I can understand this very easily. There…

In today’s Gospel Story (Mark 1:29-39) Jesus is healing people. The Psalm says “Praise the Lord, who heals the brokenhearted”. Jesus seeks out hurting and suffering people, drives out demons,…

In today’s Gospel Story the people are amazed at Jesus because he speaks with authority, and not like the teachers they were used to, the scribes. He was not what…

These thoughts are about what I sense today’s Scripture readings are saying to me at this point in my life, about my responding, or not responding to God calling me.…

This is what the Scripture pages seem to be saying to me, and I can be completely off base. Nobody else has to agree with any of this. Scripture Readings…

The Epiphany Story is a familiar one. Magi from the east make a long trip to find Jesus. They get lost along the way, but finally arrive where Jesus is.…

The journey of coming to recognize God, really a path of transformation, is not an easy one. It seems to involve suffering of some sort. Coming to recognize God transforms…

In today’s Gospel Story for the Feast of the Holy Family (LK 2:22-40) Mary and Joseph take the newborn Jesus to the Temple to fulfill the law. There they meet…

There is little doubt the feast we celebrate and the settings in which we celebrate it are very different. We recall the “First Christmas” in nice dulcet tones and pastel…

This evening people of varied and no religious tradition, for many different reasons, will celebrate something that happened a long time ago in a place that for many of us…