Author: Charles LaFond

This is a study week. So I am studying.  Not very hard, mind you.  But some.  Enough not to feel guilty, but not so much that this tired, old body…

  Onions, peeled, cut in half, roasted in the oven with the chicken, can be a wonderful side dish drizzled with a bit of olive oil and some salt and…

Thanksgiving Gratitude is the incense of God’s hopes and longings from us. God needs no sacrifices of blood or loss; no deep bows nor pious prostrations; no perfect altars nor…

Charles LaFond’s English Christmas Fruit Cake Recipe Mixed on Stir-up Sunday (The last Sunday before Advent), fed whiskey throughout the year, served the following year at Christmas time. Preheat the…

This week we celebrated our parish life with a dinner.  We gathered in the nave by candle-light, 250 of us.  We ate smoked, candied salmon on greens with pomegranate and…

I listen to books when I drive and today I needed to pull over when I heard Gabor Mate say that we needed to choose between resentment and guilt.  “Did…

Yesterday was the feast of Saint Martin of Tours.  He is the patronal saint of our chapel and is considered a model for the parish priest even though he never,…

My mentor, Maggie Ross, says that silence and beholding are the natural state of a human who knows they were made in the image and likeness of God. (1) She…

  This is my letter-writing desk.  I love to write letters.  My father gave me a bottle of ink one day and said, "This little bit of liquid can raise…

  Yesterday, the gospel was the Raising of Lazarus.  When Jesus brings Lazarus back to life, He shouts. Don’t you wonder why Jesus shouts? I do. I am an Episcopalian. …