Easter 4 Acts–Stephen What is the Christmas hymn you hear every year? Good King Wenceslas looked out, on the Feast of Stephen, When the snow lay round about, deep and crisp and even; Brightly shone the moon that night, tho’ the frost was cruel, When a poor man came in sight, gath’ring winter fuel. The … [Read more…]
Easter 3 Luke 24:13-35 Our gospel reading is one of the most profound of the resurrection stories in the gospels. It goes from failed expectation and sadness to burning hearts to a revelation to a fever pitch of excitement with the exclamation ‘The Lord is Risen indeed!’ Two followers of Jesus are walking on a … [Read more…]
Easter Sunday 2008 Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the tomb. So she ran and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved, and said to them, “They … [Read more…]
Lent 5A John 11 We have been blessed to go through some vignettes from John this Lent. In John, there are seven miracles or ‘signs’ that he records as pointers to the identity of Christ. In some of them are assigned ‘I Am’ statements. He miraculously feeds the 5000, and he says ‘I am the … [Read more…]