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But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. Early in my teaching career, I had an interaction with a young boy in my Latin class that changed how I taught for the rest of my years. I was preparing the students for a quiz later on in the week, and I noticed there was a

Blessed are the eyes which see the things that ye see. + The first thing that we have to confront in this Gospel reading for the Thirteenth Sunday after Trinity is what we read plainly in verse twenty-three of chapter ten: there are distinctions of spiritual knowledge. Some people are brought into a deeper understanding of the things of God. Jesus tells his disciples: you are blessed because of the things that you see. They had just been sent out, along with dozens of other

“Such trust have we through Christ to God-ward: not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God.” + This week’s propers teach us about the sufficiency of God’s grace. But sufficiency for what? In today’s Collect, we ask God to Pour down upon us the abundance of thy mercy; forgiving us those things whereof our conscience is afraid, and giving us those good things we are not worthy to ask, but through the merits and medi

Brethren, I declare unto you the Gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand. + As many of you know, some years before I went to went to seminary and became a priest, I attended graduate school and earned a PhD in history. A good historian will spend plenty of time puzzling over that mysterious subject known as the human person, which is a task that can be done just about anywhere. In order be a historian, all you really need is the tim

Have you ever done anything embarrassing out of complete ignorance? This can easily happen when you are visiting another culture. If you do not know the customs of the place, then you can inadvertently do something which can cause your own embarrassment, or worse scandal. After high-school, I visited Madagascar for a few months, and while there I got to go on a back-country trip with the missionary I had been assisting. We went to the south central part of the island, which