Revering all creatures St. Francis of Assisi intuitively sensed the indwelling of God in all things. As such, each creature was worthy of reverence and became the object of Francis’ special courtesy and respect. Francis preached to the birds and animals as easily as he preached to his fellow human beings. And his message was  Read more …

From the first chapters of Genesis to the closing verses of Revelation, angels play an important role in Scripture and are active throughout the story of God’s people. Angels are powerful, fascinating, and appear in many different ways and in many different situations. We are likely familiar with many of the angels that appear in  Read more …

Welcome message to Bishop Donald Lerow This weekend Bishop Lerow is making a pastoral visit to our Church of Saint Michael The Archangel. Here, we share humbling words. Bishop, on behalf of the good people of St. Michael, I welcome you and thank you for coming. We thank God for this wonderful day and we  Read more …

In the celebration of the Eucharist, the glorified Christ becomes present under the appearances of bread and wine in a way that is unique, a way that is uniquely suited to the Eucharist. In the Church’s traditional theological language, in the act of consecration during the Eucharist the “substance” of the bread and wine is  Read more …

No Dragon in Heaven ““MI-CA-EL”, (Hebrew) or “Who is like unto God?” was the cry of the great Archangel when he smote the rebel Lucifer in the conflict of the heavenly hosts. Michael was assigned to fight the devil. He was appointed to cast Lucifer out of Paradise for challenging the sovereignty of God. The  Read more …

How far are you willing to go to worship God? How far will you travel physically to worship Jesus? Why? Why do you go to a particular church? In fact, why go to church at all? Most importantly, what would the living God have you do? Most people simply go to church where their parents,  Read more …

Ten worshipers… but only one faithful! Today’s Gospel reading presents us a very special story: the healing of ten lepers who approached Jesus and prayed, “…Master, have mercy on us.” Jesus, moved with pity, said to them, “Go shew yourselves unto the priests.” And as they went, they were cleansed…but only one, a stranger, came  Read more …

The call of Matthew and his following of Christ confirms that God offers his grace to sinners, and the biggest sinners can become the best saints. If sin is the breaking off of one’s filial relationship to God, a sign of obedience to him, then to sin is merely to deny God. To sin is  Read more …

Ephphatha: Rising Above the Frustrations of Life “Ephphatha”, from the Gospel, is a Greek form of a Syro-Chaldaic or Aramaic word, meaning “Be opened”. This word was uttered by Christ when healing the man, who was deaf and dumb, a man frustrated by his limitations. Speaking to the Corinthians’ community (today’s Epistle), St Paul states,  Read more …

We (Christians) build to see God. In 1 Chronicles 22:19 God says “Seek me, build me a temple”. Building a space for a community to encounter God is one of the most basic acts of drawing heaven into your world. It has been this way for centuries. The Shunamite woman built a room on her  Read more …