Drink we of “living water, springing up into everlasting life”; “but this spoke” the Savior “of the Spirit, which they that believe in Him should receive”. For observe what He says, “He that believes in Me (not simply this, but), as the Scripture has said (thus He has sent you back to the Old Testament), out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water”, not rivers perceived by sense and merely watering the earth with its thorns and trees, but bringing souls to the light. A

As he journeyed, he came near Damascus, and suddenly a light shone around him from heaven. Then he fell to the ground, and heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me?” And he said, “Who are You, Lord?” Then the Lord said, “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting....” (Acts 9:3-5) The conversion of Saul the persecutor into Paul the Apostle is one of the more dramatic and remarkable events in the book of Acts and in the early years of the Church. Certainl

Everybody seems to think this is the end. From religious eschatologies (the doctrine of the last things) to the environmental crisis to a veritable deluge of books and movies in popular culture - everything from The Left Behind series to zombies - everybody seems to be thinking about the end times. And though there is a wide array of opinion on what it means and what it will look like, the one thing they all seem to have in common is the belief that we are already in - or fas

On Bright Tuesday we detour briefly from the Gospel of John to St Luke chapter 24 for the account of the two disciples on the road to Emmaus and to a "stranger" who travels with them. What a remarkable reading! First of all, the two disciples, Cleopas and (according to tradition) Luke, are on the road leaving Jerusalem where the other disciples are gathered. Why are they leaving? We do not know, but we do know that they are not gathered with the other disciples of Jesus. They