I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. Jn 15:5 When the greatest basketball player of all time, Michael Jordan, is asked what his best game was of his long career, he says it was the…

The Apostles were teaching a crowd of followers well into the evening, such that they hadn’t eaten all day.  When they finally thought of food, it was evening and there were only five loaves of bread and two fish available to feed 5000 people.  Jesus says to them, well go ahead and feed them.  The…

I returned from Armenia a week ago, the question asked more than any other is what’s happening with the turmoil between the church and state. Sadly, it’s become so publicly vicious that its in the news around the world, so it’s irresponsible to ignore it but neither do you want to talk about it. Well,…

In today’s Gospel reading Jesus tells a ghost story. We adults aren’t generally into such stories, but talk to anyone in their early teens or remember when you were that age, we loved them!  I read nearly every Steven King book by the time I was thirteen, and today there are dozens of books, movies…

“And call no one your father on earth, for you have one Father—the one in heaven.”—Mt 23:9 This is definitely a saying of Jesus that you will not find on any hallmark Father’s Day cards.  It also might be the last reading you would expect as we celebrate father’s day today, especially from me a…

It seems that nowadays there is a podcast on every topic (including my personal favorite St. Hagop sermons). I stumbled upon one last week which resonated with wisdom, especially with today’s feast of Pentecost.  The podcast is called ‘We regret to inform you: the rejection podcast,’ with over one hundred episodes about people who are…