"All is vanity" or "In the long run, everybody dies." These are different ways of saying the same thing. We must turn away from any activity which amounts to tearing down our barns to build larger ones.

The challenge of prayer is that we must be absorbed in it, fulfilling the petition "Your will be done."

Let's get away from stereotyping Martha and Mary, and instead consider that we need the qualities of both for living a full, rich life.

The law by which we are to live is not up in the sky or across the sea. It is planted within us. Jesus gives an example of someone who acts spontaneously, in accord with the principle of love planted within him.

Comfort and satisfaction are to be found in developing the discipline of a disciple.

I am not sure why I do not have a recording of last week's homily. Whenever we consider our task of journeying to fulfill God's call to us, the most important travel is the journey inward.

Last week, the homilist was away. The lectionary is supposing that we all know the story of David and Bathsheba, given that we are walking into the play rather late. Of course, we all need to pick up our own Bibles!

Last week, I think I had a low battery. Today, a consideration of the Holy Eucharist through the concepts of priesthood and sacrifice.

The undoing of Babel is our invitation to emerge from confusion about ourselves into the clarity of God's love.

Jesus ascends so that we may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of our life.