All Saints of America

Epistle: 1 Cor 6:12-20
Gospel: Luke 15:11-32
The Sunday of the Prodigal is always a hard one for me: not because I am a failure, but because I need nearly every day – to “come to myself” as the Son does in the story, and realise that life in my Father’s house is so much better than [...]

Proverbs 1:20-33

Wisdom of Solomon 7:26 – 8:1

Isaiah 50:4-9a

Psalm 116:1-9

James 3:1-12

Mark 8:27-38

Year B, Proper 19 (24), Revised Common Lectionary
God loves nothing so much as the person who lives with wisdom.
Whenever we start to read the Wisdom passages of the Bible we cross a gender line. I use that word here in its correct, linguistic meaning. [...]

HE FEAST Of the Transfiguration is one of the 12 Great Feasts of the Church. In other words, on the Eastern calendar, this party ranks up there with Pascha and the Nativity. It’s one of very few feasts that get observed on a Sunday instead of bumped over (in the West) or commemorated [...]