WEEKLY RECTOR’S MESSAGE – April 11th – Fr. Thomas.

The seminary I attended for three years had a rich liturgical and spiritual identity. In addition to the daily Mass, Morning and Evening Prayer and Compline (night prayers) were sung in the chapel on a regular basis. Students presided over Morning and Evening Prayer with a rotation list of “officiants.” On one particular weekday, a […]

WEEKLY RECTOR’S MESSAGE – April 1st – Fr. Thomas.

At a church in Bangladesh, the congregation was watching a film about the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus. The audience was filled with people who had never heard of the Gospel before. The children sat in front, and the adults stood in the back. As the story of Jesus’ crucifixion unfolded, and his body […]

WEEKLY RECTOR’S MESSAGE – March 28th – Fr. Thomas.

Among the various restaurants where I worked as a server between college and seminary, was a summer at the Lexington Country Club. I remember an incident where a father and his young son had just come in from the golf course for lunch. The father ordered a Rueben sandwich and the son ordered a cheeseburger. […]