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Sunday, April 27, 2025
The Second Sunday of Easter
In spite of all we have heard and all we have seen, it is often hard to believe. Because it is hard to believe, we will invest ourselves in the Easter mystery for fifty days (a week of weeks). Because it is hard to believe, John the evangelist will provide sign after sign celebrating Jesus’ victory over death. Because it is hard to believe, the risen Jesus will return to us again and again in the mystery of holy communion, inviting us to touch and taste his presence, and offering us his peace.
Sunday, April 20, 2025
Easter Sunday: The Resurrection of Our Lord
Though we sometimes doubt and often resist God’s desire to protect and save us, our God persists. In holy baptism, God’s people have been called and gathered into a God-initiated relationship that will endure. Lent provides the church with a time and a tradition in which to seek God’s face again. Lent provides another occasion to behold the God of our salvation in the face of the Blessed One who “comes in the name of the Lord.”
Sunday, April 18, 2025
Good Friday Tenebrae
Tenebrae worship (Tenebrae means “darkness”) is one of the oldest in Church tradition. This evening we gather to reflect on the sufferings of our Lord and to consider our own shortcomings. In this service we ask for forgiveness and amendment of our ways.
Sunday, April 13, 2025
Palm Sunday: The Passion of Our Lord
Today we follow Christ from triumphal entry to the cross, each waypoint of the journey marked by Jesus’ compassion for those who would betray, mock, accuse, or do violence to him. Though persecuted and beaten, Jesus the Son of God is not disgraced; instead, he asks forgiveness for those who put him to death. We have walked the Lenten pathway these forty days, each of us invited through baptism to “let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus.” We enter this holy week accompanying Jesus to the cross with both grief and thanksgiving in our hearts, trusting in God’s redeeming love.
Sunday, April 6, 2025
The Fifth Sunday in Lent
Our God makes all things new. In the first reading God promises it. In the gospel, Mary anticipates it, anointing Jesus’ feet with costly perfume in preparation for the day of his burial. In the second reading, Paul recalls his transformation from the persecutor Saul into an apostle. In baptism, God’s new person (you!) rises daily from the deadly mire of trespasses and sins.
Sunday, March 23, 2025
The Third Sunday in Lent
The warnings are plentiful and blunt on the third Sunday in Lent. Cut it out or get cut down! The warnings are accompanied by God’s invitation to attentiveness: “Incline your ear, and come to me; listen, so that you may live.” The landowner’s ultimatum is forestalled by the gardener’s readiness to till the ground one more year. That is good news for all of us. Thanks be to God!