by Shelly | Apr 23, 2025 | Sermons
Looking for signs to believe 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...
by Shelly | Apr 19, 2025 | Sermons
Living the Mystery of the Resurrected Christ “The last enemy to be destroyed is death,” Paul writes. Today Christ is risen, and we gather together with astonishment and joy. Christ is risen, and we have been set free from the bonds of death. Christ is risen, and we...
by Shelly | Apr 11, 2025 | Sermons
Rejoice that we are made new through Christ 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...
by Shelly | Apr 3, 2025 | Sermons
Rejoice that we are made new through Christ 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...
by Shelly | Mar 27, 2025 | Sermons
Rejoice that we are made new through Christ The psalm sets the tone this day: “Happy are they whose transgressions are forgiven, and whose sin is put away!” Happy are those who have “become the righteousness of God” in the merits of Christ Jesus. Happy are those for...
by Office | Mar 23, 2025 | Sermons
God calls us to bear fruit 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...
