O Lord, in thee have I trusted; let me never be confounded.     Little used vocabulary words – we sometimes hear them, but often assume their meaning and give them no further thought.  When I was young, and visiting with some Episcopal nuns, I heard the quote “Let me never be cofounded.”  What on earth did it mean?  Confounded wasn’t a word with which I was acquainted.  Turns out, it means confused – but confused in a very special way.  “Confusion,” so the saying goes, “is th

2 Peter 1:16-21    Luke 9:28-36   Good morning. Today we celebrate one of the oldest feast days in the Church, known as the Transfiguration of our Lord. For Christians today, it’s a familiar story. For the disciples who witnessed it, and for the early Church, it was anything but.   Let’s put ourselves back in time, to first century Galilee, or Judea, or even Samaria, the areas where Jesus walked and did the bulk of His teaching. We’ve probably heard about Him – which means we

Isaiah 58:1-12    Matthew 5:13-20    Shout out, do not hold back!   Lift up your voice like a trumpet!  Announce to my people their rebellion, to the house of Jacob their sins.   In today’s first reading, through Isaiah God speaks to the Children of Israel, they who have taken great pains to do the “right things”, to observe their religion scrupulously.  They believe they have truly sought God daily and have desired to know God’s ways, “as if they were a nation that practiced