Palm Sunday, Year C April 13, 2025 Today marks the beginning of Holy Week with the procession of palms and singing loud hosannas. We call this day Palm Sunday. I’m not sure if any of you noticed that in the account in the Gospel of Luke today there are no…palms. In Luke’s account, it says … Continue reading The Voices Cannot Be Silenced
Lent V, Year C April 6. 2025 This Sunday we take a break from the Gospel of Luke and visit the Gospel of John. It is the account of a woman, and in this case specifically Mary of Bethany, who anoints Jesus with oil. Such an important event that all four Gospels have a version … Continue reading For the Love of Christ
Lent III, Year C March 23, 2025 Here we are on the third Sunday in Lent. I don’t know about you, but this year feels a bit more Lenty to me. In a world where there is so much confusion, anger, and fear, when the powerful harming the powerless seems to be more visible, Jesus … Continue reading Tragedy, Good People, and a Fig Tree
Ash Wednesday, Year C Mar 5, 2025Matthew 6:1-6,16-21Joel 2:1-2,12-17 Lent. I wonder what you think when you hear that word? A time to deny yourself your favorite chocolate? Log off of social media? Do you think it is a time when you are to feel ashamed of your failures as if God was some sort … Continue reading The Fast I Choose
5th Sunday After Epiphany/Year C Isaiah 6:1-8, [9-13]1 Corinthians 15:1-11Luke 5:1-11 Fish are a prominent feature in the Gospel stories about Jesus and his disciples. And I just kept thinking about all the fish stories people make up when bragging about their catch, and all the jokes grandpas and kids tell each other like, What … Continue reading Fisherfolk and a Start-up Ministry That Changed the World
3rd Sunday after the Epiphany 1 Corinthians 12:12-31aLuke 4:14-21 Why do you think people come to the church? What is it they are looking for? Why did you come? Why did you stay? After one year of being with this wonderful congregation, I have heard from enough of you to surmise that you came looking … Continue reading The Dignity of Every Human Being
Christmas Eve 2024Year C Luke 2:1-14(15-20) In the name of the God who was, who is, and who is to come. Tonight we celebrate the birth of Jesus. Tonight we light the Christ candle and the Holy Family has been placed in the nativity scene and the baby is laying in a manger. Many of … Continue reading The Incarnation and Microbes
Advent 4, Year CDec. 22, 2024Luke 1:39-45(46-55) We are getting so close to Christmas–but not yet! It’s almost like waiting for the Second Coming of Christ. It’s here, but not fully. And today we encounter two pregnant women, pregnant with sons who will enter the world and turn it on its head, but not quite … Continue reading Mary, the Ark of the New Covenant
Advent III Year CDec. 15, 2024 Luke 3:7-18 Well, today is the third Sunday of Advent! The third candle we light is for joy. It is pink historically representing Gaudete Sunday, meaning rejoice! And nothing says rejoice like being called a brood of vipers! John the Baptist is not warm and cuddly, and a really … Continue reading Hey, You Brood of Vipers
Advent II Year C Dec. 8, 2024 Luke 3:1-6Canticle 16 Prepare ye the way of the Lord! These are familiar advent words spoken by the prophet Isaiah in today’s Gospel reading and echoed in a beautiful song sung by John the Baptist’s own father, Zechariah, in our Canticle this morning. This two thousand year old … Continue reading Prepare The Way
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