The Sunday Reflection of Ms. Sarah Stites, Director of ‘AYO’ a program of Fund for Armenian Relief.
The Sunday Reflection of Ms. Sarah Stites, Director of ‘AYO’ a program of Fund for Armenian Relief.
The Gospel reading for today’s first Sunday of Advent is our seasonal realignment to get our priorities right; warning against the addictive nature of worldly wealth and what true riches actually are. Today’s parable is the story of a man who amassed greater and greater wealth, only to have has life taken away before he…
Just two weeks ago the newest church in our Diocese was consecrated the Church of the Holy Archangels, Sts. Michael & Gabriel, whose feast day just happens to be this weekend. What better time than now then, to reflect on what angels are and aren’t, throw out popular misconceptions, recover their original meaning and see…
If a book was to be written about how not to be elected and how not to be popular, Jesus would probably be the main character. In today’s Gospel reading, we see that Jesus is becoming popular and electable, and he does what he can to ruin that. He insults his potential donors and powerbrokers…
As those of you know who have travelled through the seasons with me a few years, I struggle with holidays like Halloween, Valentines Day and even Christmas, which seem to have lost much of their original meaning and function mainly as consumer holidays. That struggle was real yesterday as Narek, Nora & I wandered through…