Interrupting the Silence

Category: Church Seasons

  • Archbishop Williams’ Reflections on Advent

    This Sunday begins a new liturgical year with the Season of Advent. Archbishop Rowan Williams offers his reflections on this holy season of waiting, expectation, and hope.   More Advent videos. Read more

  • Sacred Monotony, Resting in God

    St. Augustine said that our hearts are restless until they rest in God. “Resting in God” sounds like a great idea but it often seems we are too busy to take time to rest in God. The restlessness continues. So we try to do or schedule just a little bit more, thinking that maybe that restless Read more

  • Uncomfortable Faith, Unsnatchable People – A Sermon For Easter 4C, John 10:22-30.

    The collect and readings for the Fourth Sunday of Easter may be found here. The appointed gospel is John 10:22-30. 22At that time the festival of the Dedication took place in Jerusalem. It was winter, 23and Jesus was walking in the temple, in the portico of Solomon. 24So the Jews gathered around him and said Read more

  • Go On! Get Out Of Here! He Is Risen!

    The collect and readings for today, Easter, the Feast of our Lord’s Resurrection, may be found here. The gospel appointed for today is Luke 24:1-12. But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they came to the tomb, taking the spices that they had prepared. 2They found the stone rolled away from the Read more

  • Hades Replies to the Resurrection

    Today Hades cries out groaning: “I should not have accepted the Man born of Mary. He came and destroyed my power. He shattered the gates of brass. As God, He raised the souls I had held captive.” Glory to Thy cross and resurrection, O Lord! (Vesperal Liturgy of Holy Saturday) Read more

  • Holy Saturday: Weep Not For Me.

    Weep not for me, O Mother, beholding in the sepulcher the Son whom thou hast conceived without seed in thy womb. For I shall rise and shall be glorified, and as God I shall exalt in everlasting glory those who magnify thee with faith and love. O Son without beginning, in ways surpassing nature was Read more

  • Which Will It Be, Palms or Cloaks?

    The collect and readings for The Sunday of the Passion: Palm Sunday, may be found here. The following sermon is based on the gospel for the Liturgy of the Palms, Luke 19:28-40. 28After he had said this, he went on ahead, going up to Jerusalem. 29When he had come near Bethphage and Bethany, at the Read more

  • Thieves and Lovers of the Common Purse – A Sermon on John 12:1-8

    The collect and readings for this Sunday, the Fifth Sunday in Lent, may be found here. The appointed gospel is John 12:1-8. Six days before the Passover Jesus came to Bethany, the home of Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead. 2There they gave a dinner for him. Martha served, and Lazarus was one Read more

  • Trusting Love, A Prodigal Son Sermon: Luke 15:1-3, 11-32

    The collect and readings for this past Sunday, Lent 4C, may be found here. The appointed gospel was Luke 15:1-3, 11-32. Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming near to listen to him. 2And the Pharisees and the scribes were grumbling and saying, “This fellow welcomes sinners and eats with them.” 3So he Read more