by Richard Lightsey | Mar 8, 2020 | Homilies
“Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you.” (Gen.12:1) There is this idea of the epic journey in literature and history. Such a journey changes everything. Whether it is Odysseus’s journey in ancient...
by Richard Lightsey | Mar 1, 2020 | Homilies
Why was John baptizing in the wilderness, out beyond the city limits? Why did Jesus emerge from the waters of that baptism and go further out into the desert? Why was Paul, following his dramatic conversion experience, drawn into the desert of Arabia? Why was...
by Richard Lightsey | Feb 16, 2020 | Homilies
O God, the strength of all who put their trust in you: Mercifully accept our prayers; because we are overwhelmed and overcome with a sense of powerlessness amidst the gravity and weight of all that is happening around us… give us help, incentive, passion, faith, and...
by Richard Lightsey | Feb 9, 2020 | Homilies
We are reflecting upon the circles in or lacking in our life. Whenever a person senses and follows the call of the divine in their life, they are drawn together with others who affirm, resonate, encourage, and challenge your life. We see this in the life...
by Richard Lightsey | Feb 2, 2020 | Homilies
I love the ancient path we walk here at St. Andrew…the path that brings us through the hope of conception, the promise of new birth, the complexity of growing, the anguish of suffering, the silence and sorrow of dying, and the surprise that life…through all the above...
by Richard Lightsey | Jan 26, 2020 | Homilies
1:10 Now I appeal to you, brothers and sisters, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you be in agreement and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be united in the same mind and the same purpose. This appeal from St. Paul brings me both a...
