April 25, 2021 (Liturgical Year B)
The passage read in the lectionary today was Acts 4:5-12. If you want a fuller context, I recommend you read Acts 3:1-4:22. ...
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April 18, 2021 (Liturgical Year B)
Luke 24:36-48
Do you think this holds true today? Is Jesus still full of surprises? And if he is, are we even ...
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April 1, 2021 (Liturgical Year B)
John 13:1-17, 31b-35
Like each of us every day, Jesus had choices to make. The evening we remember in today’s Gospel is ...
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Sunday, March 28, 2021 (Liturgical Year B)
Mark 15:1-39
This Holy Week, let us walk with Jesus the full length of His journey. Let us not walk around the ...
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March 21, 2021 (Liturgical Year B)
John 12:20-33
Knowing...the giving up of immediate comforts...goes against our very nature, what are we to do? How are we ...
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February 21, 2021 (Liturgical Year B)
Genesis 9:8-17; Mark 1:9-15
Mosaic of Noah and his kin, Basilica of San Marco, Venice, Italy. Courtesy Wikimedia. ...
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January 31, 2021 (Liturgical Year B)
1 Corinthians 8:1-13
In today’s epistle, Paul calls out members of the Corinthian church for bad behavior and attitu...
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January 24, 2021 (Liturgical Year B)
Mark 1:14-20 and 1 Corinthians 7:29-31
In today’s passage from Mark, Jesus calls the first apostles to an unimaginably ...
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December 20, 2020 (Year B)
Luke 1:46-55 (the Magnificat) and Luke 1:26-38
She “never wore fine clothes...never entered a palace...and never travelled ...
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Year A - November 15, 2020
Matthew 25:14-30
We have the opportunity to transform the world with the power of love -- if we would but take the chance.
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año A - 8 de noviembre de 2020
sermón escrito por la reverenda Erin Rath
traducción por Mónica Robayo
Por la Sagrada Escritura por el día (Josué 24: ...
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Year A - November 8, 2020
Joshua 24:1-25*; Matthew 25:1-13
(*Note: Our official lectionary skips verses 4-13 of the Joshua reading. I think they are an ...
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Year A - October 18, 2020
Matthew 22:15-22
On the surface, today’s Gospel appears to be a political challenge. A deeper look reveals something quite ...
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Year A - September 27, 2020
Ezekiel 18:1-4, 25-32
Today, we heard from one of my favorite prophets: Ezekiel! Like Jonah, whom we heard from last week, ...
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September 20, 2020 - Year A
Jonah 3:10-4:11 & Matthew 20:1-16
There are lots of questions connected to the times in which we find ourselves. I find ...
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September 6, 2020 - Year A
Exodus 12:1-14 & Matthew 18:15-20
Today’s reading from Exodus remembers the first-ever Passover. It is both a beginning and ...
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August 9, 2020 - Year A
Matthew 14:22-33
In today’s gospel, Jesus sends his disciples on a boat ahead of him. For the very first time in His ministry, they ...
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Year A (2020)
Matthew 14:13-21
Today’s Gospel tells us one version of the story known as “the feeding of the multitude.” It’s a story with which ...
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Matthew 13: 1-9, 18-23
Today’s Gospel reading contains an extended metaphor known as The Parable of the Sower. It’s one of the few parables in Matthew’s ...
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June 28, 2020
Read: Genesis 22:1-14 and Matthew 10:40-42
Today’s passage from Genesis is a difficult one -- perhaps the most difficult in all of the Hebrew ...
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I prefer to think of it as “sacred spacing!” The space we put between ourselves helps to keep everyone -- particularly the weakest among us -- safe and ...
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