Lectio Divina – Weekly Video Reflections on the Sunday Gospel
We invite you to participate in the Gospal reflection for the next Sunday with Bishop David Walker, Fr John Frauenfelder and Virginia Ryan.
These Lectio Reflections provide the framework to develop our faith life. Our faith is in Jesus who comes to us as the human face of God. Faith life is human life lived in a deeply personal and intimate relationship with Jesus. Jesus is our friend and lover, the most significant point of reference in our life. We need to lead our life conscientiously and intentionally so that all that we do is done within the context of our love relationship with Jesus. Lectio Divina is one of the ways we can develop this.
Loyalty, the Cross, and the Cost of Discipleship
Lectio Reflection – Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Matthew 10:37-42 (Year A 2026) There are some Gospel passages that comfort us immediately, and there are others that unsettle us before they console us. This Sunday’s Gospel is one of the latter. It contains words of Jesus that can sound hard…
Mission: Sharing the Life of Jesus with the World
Introduction The Church exists for mission. Every structure, ministry, sacrament, and form of pastoral care ultimately serves the mission entrusted to the Church by Christ: “Go into all the world and preach the Gospel to the whole creation” (Mk 16:15). Yet mission is often misunderstood. It is frequently reduced to…
Following Jesus: The Heart of the Christian Life
We live in a time of great change. The Church has changed in many ways over the past century, and the world around us has changed even more. Sometimes these changes can leave us uncertain. Yet beneath all the changes there is something that never changes: our call to follow…
Trinity Sunday – God So Loved the World
Lectio Reflection – John 3:16-18 (Year A 2026) There are some passages in scripture that are so familiar that we can stop really hearing them. I think this Gospel for Trinity Sunday is one of them. “For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son…” Most of…
The Ascension and the Courage to Go
Lectio Reflection – Solemnity of the Ascension – Matthew 28:16-20 (Year A 2026) There is something deeply moving about the final scene of Matthew’s Gospel. The disciples return to Galilee, back to where so much of it began, and there on the mountain Jesus gives them their final commission. What…
The Way, the Truth and the Life
Lectio Reflection – Fifth Sunday of Easter – John 14:1-12 (Year A, 2026) There are some passages in the Gospel of John that feel less like ordinary teaching and more like standing before a great mystery. This Gospel for the Fifth Sunday of Easter is one of them. It is…
Articles & Writing from Bishop David Walker
Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year A
There is a motif of welcome and hospitality in today’s readings and it is easy…
The Conditions of Discipleship – A Reflection on Matthew 10:37-42
Most of us know what it feels like to be pulled in many directions. Family…
Lectio Reflection – Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time – Matthew 10:37-42 (Year A 2026)
Discipleship
Reflecting on this Sunday’s Gospel, Matthew 10:37-42, I’m taken aback by the directness with which…
Loyalty, the Cross, and the Cost of Discipleship
Lectio Reflection – Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Matthew 10:37-42 (Year A 2026) There are…
