Lone Star Parson

  The Christian life, when you think on it, is an ascension, a journey upwards to heaven in Christ. Our architecture proclaims the same, ste...

  Here we are on Palm Sunday, the "gateway to Holy Week," and the liturgy of the Mass seems strange or jarring. One minute we'...

  If you follow the newfangled lectionary, you'll have heard St. John's account of Christ driving the money changers and associated ...

I've been reflecting on the Parable of the Sower in Matthew 13 because it's the Gospel for Sunday in our newfangled, confusing,...

Our Lord's body lies in the tomb, he has descended to the dead, to Sheol, to Hell, ad infernos . The light of the Gospel, of the Wo...

Memento, homo, quia pulvis es et in pulverem reverteris — Remember, O Man, that thou art dust and unto dust thou shalt return. A...

Here we are again at the beginning of Lent and that's usually the Compound's cue to unleash TS Eliot's poem, Ash Wednesda...