All Meditations
Grace Upon Grace
posted on Jan 19, 2015John, author of the Fourth Gospel, begins with a beautiful hymn about the Word of God. Towards the end of the hymn, there is a tiny phrase tucked in there. But this tiny phrase possesses immense wisdom and I would like to focus on it with you toda...
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Running Down the Dirt Road to Us: A Christmas Sermon
posted on Dec 27, 2014My friend Chris is one of the best dads I know. He is a doctor but he always finds time to take his boys on scouting expeditions. His Facebook page is chock full of his two boys, always doing some activity or other, with the same smile on their f...
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Make His Paths Straight
posted on Dec 18, 2014Francisco Anglero was born in Puerto Rico in 1944. His family moved to Brooklyn NY in 1949. Cisco was dark skinned and couldn't speak English well so he was beaten up almost every time he went out in the neighborhood. By the time he was old enough...
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The King and the End of All Things
posted on Nov 27, 2014On this day, Dr Mary Neal, an orthopedic surgeon, will tell us what happened to her when she died. Today is the final Sunday of the Christian year. Next week, we start a whole new year with the season of Advent. Today we are not afraid to talk abo...
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Oil for Your Lamps
posted on Nov 11, 2014It's not every day that two members of this Cathedral are on the front page of the Florida Times Union. Congratulations to John Corse and Ed Graves, two of the four swimmers whose collective ages total 362 years, which means that their average age...
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The Offering
posted on Oct 31, 2014Have you seen the movie As Good as it Gets? It is one of my all-time favorite movies and I watched it on Friday night. It is the story of an obsessive compulsive man named Melvin Udall who is just crazy OCD. He can't walk on sidewalk cracks and he...
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The Invitation
posted on Oct 16, 2014Herman walked into the house after a long day at work. He took off his boots and started to put them away in the hallway closet but it was jammed with his little girls shoes and toys and her ladybug umbrella. Why doesn't Lorraine make her learn to...
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Francis Moments
posted on Oct 6, 2014About twelve years ago, I was working at a church in Kansas and it was early on a Tuesday morning. My son Luke was four years old, my son Jacob was just two. My husband was off somewhere training for an Ironman and I had to get the boys ready for ...
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Not Fair
posted on Sep 23, 2014Anna was eighteen and just starting college when she found out that she was pregnant. The father was a fling, totally unreliable and had no interest in the child. Anna's life was turned upside down. How could she be so careless? How could she let ...
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The Reality of Relationships
posted on Sep 8, 2014Richard grew up in a nearly perfect family. His dad was a renowned surgeon. His mom stayed at home. He had a younger brothers and their life was full of safety, learning and fun. Their dad was stoic, calm and loving. They adored him and waited wit...
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The Feast of All Saints
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