C33: The Fifth Sunday after Pentecost, Year C (2016)
“It was his own dumb fault!” begins Father Michael Renninger, Pastor of St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Richmond, Virginia. “Everyone knew that the road from Jericho to Jerusalem was dangerous…but apparently this guy was by...
C35: The Tenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year C (2016)
“Is there anything more intimate than to hear the heartbeat of another person?…Can human beings desire anything more than to be held so close and know that they are so loved?” says Father Michael Renninger,...
C40: The Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost, Year C (2016)
“Imagine that your new pastor shows up disguised as a homeless man with a ‘Duck Dynasty’ kind of beard and a matching T-shirt…wearing old shorts that have holes in them, and if you got too...
C22: The Fifth Sunday of Easter, Year C (2016)
After several painful meetings in which the new leadership at the monastery where I was living gave me long lists of why I would never be a good priest, I asked the newest leader the...
C16: The Fifth Sunday in Lent, Year C (2016)
“If you knew there was a Bible story about a woman and Jesus and some perfume, but you couldn’t quite remember who the woman was or when in Jesus’ ministry she went to him or...