Isaiah 43:16-21; John 12:1-8
Memory is an amazing thing, isn’t it? The ability to store vast amounts of information in your head — not just factual information… but also personal experiences, sensations, emotions, the way things felt to us… These things that happened in the past and our memory of them continue to shape our identity and give our life meaning…
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.”
Luke 13:1-9
We begin the liturgy on each of these Sundays in Lent with the Decalogue, a reciting of the Ten Commandments, a gentle prayer for mercy in the keeping of them, and then we go about making a confession acknowledging in some way we’ve not quite kept everything we intended. This reminds us that there are guideposts in our lives. There are times when we fail and when we sin.
Luke 13:31-35
The humor of Jesus is subtle, nearly imperceptible at first glance. The gospels are not funny in the traditional sense. It’s not slapstick comedy; there are no pratfalls […]. But Jesus knew humor disarms and unites.
Luke 4:1-13 (First Sunday in Lent)
Who can name the 7 dwarfs? Santa’s reindeer? […] the 10 commandments? It’s hard to list them, harder perhaps to follow them. The 10 commandments have their very own story.
Read Penitential Order Rite 2 along with Ten Commandments.
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?
1 Corinthians 13:1-13; Luke 4:21-30
“Now Marriage has been around for a long time, the desire to seek another person to travel with in our life can be sacred… the will to bind ourselves to another life…”
John 2:1-11
“This past Friday, the Anglican Communion wrapped up its latest Primates’ Meeting…”
Luke 3:15-17, 21-22
“There is a word — a very short word — that I think is being eliminated from our conversation. It’s being eliminated from our civil discourse. It’s a word that’s being eliminated even from the way we think, engage, and interact with our world. It’s a three-letter word…”