Sermons

Homily preached by the Rev. James La Macchia: After hearing our successive readings from the Gospel According to Luke Sunday after Sunday this summer, I’m beginning to understand...

Really, does Luke expect us, “When we give a luncheon or a dinner,” not to “invite our friends or our brothers or our relatives or rich neighbors, in case they may invite us in return, and we would be repaid”?

Maybe it’s because they were guys: what Ambrose et al. fail to notice about the “woman with a spirit that had crippled her for eighteen years" is the woman...

As we just heard in the Gospel, Luke takes the same material as did Matthew about bringing not peace but division and about fathers and mothers against sons and daughters...

When we feel threatened by a perceived loss of our culture or identity, fear is a common, if not the most common, response. For example...