We begin our Advent Vespers homily series by looking at John 8:25 as an echo of John 1:1, “In the beginning was the Word.”

We explore how Advent isn’t just about the past or the future or even just the present, but about the God who is ordering all history towards Himself and how our baptisms fold our past, present and futures into Christ, who has stepped into our time.

On Christ the King Sunday, Seminarian Cale Baker examines the Cross as the seat of Christ's Kingship. Discover how the curse of Adam is overturned by the penitent thief's confession and Christ's promise of Paradise.

We look at what Jesus is getting at about the destruction of the Temple. Above all the mess of the world and the false hopes and promises it puts forward is the Christian witness to the Cross that truly and completely fulfills the meaning of that Temple.

The cynical Sadducees attempt to trap Jesus with a trick question on marriage in the afterlife, and Jesus brilliantly reverses things, demonstrating how they have misunderstood Scripture and the very character of God Himself, shattering their dead, vapid view of God, as well as this age and the age to come.

We explore one of Paul’s more mystical passages and the radical notion of the Church — all the saints — as Christ’s “fullness” and His glorious, predestined inheritance.

The Pharisee vs. the Tax Collector. Most read this as a parable about arrogance vs. humility, but it runs deeper than that. It’s a parable about the sin of self-justification and how true hope is found only and entirely in throwing yourself on the mercy of God, seen above all else in the Cross of Jesus Christ.

St. Luke, the regular ol' physician turned evangelist, portrays Jesus as the Great Physician, proclaiming Himself as the New Adam of the ultimate Jubilee come to heal humanity and bring them back to Paradise “today.”

Ten lepers healed and only one turns back to thank Jesus. We explore the real miracle that takes place in this story — the true healing of the human heart shown in genuine gratitude for the gifts of God — and why this often takes place in the “no man’s lands” of our lives.

Beginning with the way we crave and cry over goofy animal videos, we explore the tension between Creation’s “very good” beauty and its groamning, finding the answer to that tension in the Cross of Jesus Christ.