Luke 7:11-17
Today is Picnic Sunday. You don’t find that in the prayer book… It’s a good time in the middle of the year to be together in fellowship and delight in who we are, who we’ve been, and who we can be. There’s so much in the life of this parish that happens that we don’t all see or experience, and yet we’re a part of it.
Luke 7:1-10 At first glance, this gospel reading sounds like a healing story… Jesus healed someone… We think that’s the end of the story, but I think on a deeper level, there’s a lot we can hear from this reading besides a healing story. This really in many ways is a story of Jesus breaking down some of the barriers of his tradition.
John 17:20-26, Sunday after the Feast of Ascension
I’d like to share a quote with you this morning: “One cannot level one’s moral lance at every evil in the universe. There are just too many of them. But you can do something, and the difference between doing something and doing nothing is everything.” That’s a quote by someone I’d like to share a few thoughts about this morning. It’s the quote of a Jesuit priest who was very active, particularly in the 1960s and 1970s. His name was Father Dan Berrigan…
Acts 9:36-43; John 10:22-30
“I can’t take it. I just can’t take it.” Ever use that phrase? I think most of us, at some point in our life, get to that point where we say “I just can’t take it.” I want to reflect on that phrase this morning. It’s probably one of the most honest things that we say, because what we’re saying is, “I can’t take it.” But what I think the challenge is… While we can’t take it, the only thing we can do is give ourselves to it. And that’s the hard part.
John 20:1-18
Happy Easter! Often times when we think of Easter, we think of Easter as an event — an event that happened: Jesus the Christ raised from the dead. But if we look closely at the scriptures and all the Gospel stories that tell of the resurrection, I’d suggest it’s not so much an event that’s being described as much as an experience: the experience of the risen Christ.
John 20:1-18
Happy Easter! [Father George enters dressed in a hard hat and tool belt.] How many children are here? If you’re honest, we’re all children at heart… I want to talk to you about something today, particularly to the children: how did people know that Jesus Christ had been raised from the dead?
Palm Sunday, Luke 22:14-23:56
I want to share a few thoughts on this Palm Sunday and this week we’re entering into that we call holy…
Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32
Carl Jung is someone who I really admire as a thinker, as a psychologist, with tremendous insight into the human mind and the way we find and discover meaning in our lives . . . I want to share a quote with you from Carl Jung as a lens for the reading from Luke’s gospel: “One cannot live the afternoon of life according to the program of life’s morning, for what was great in the morning will be of little importance in the evening.”
Matthew 6:1-6,16-21
We begin this Lenten journey tonight, this Ash Wednesday, I’m always brought back to the reminder of what Lent is about and how it came about. A reminder that in the early church, folks prepared for Baptism for three years….
Luke 9:28-36, [37-43a]
Today, we celebrate the end of a season, a liturgical season called Epiphany [. . .]. We conclude this season of Epiphany with this story often referred to as the Transfiguration. [. . .] How can we as the body of Christ be transfigured?