Sermons

Caravaggio completed his painting “The Call of St. Matthew” in 1600. It is a dynamic and stunning work, showcasing Caravaggio’s dramatic “chiaroscuro” style of light and shadow... Notice how Caravaggio creates a rather “shady” scene consistent with today’s Gospel lesson...

And God held in his hand / A small globe. Look he said. / The son looked. Far off, / As through water, he saw / A scorched land of fierce / Colour. The light burned / There... --R. S. Thomas

When in John’s Gospel John speaks of “eternal life”, John is not speaking of escaping the flames of hell; for John, “eternal life” is different than it is in the rest of Scripture...

Just how do we bear witness, day by day—with its often consuming joys and sorrows—to the transcendent joy of the Gospel?

Though for Peter’s community being in “exile” meant that they were being persecuted, there are any number of ways one could be in “exile”...