Interrupting the Silence

Category: Church Seasons

  • Sermon for Lent 3C: Repent, Towers Are Falling And Trees Are Fruitless

    The collect and readings for today, the Third Sunday in Lent, may be found here. The appointed gospel is Luke 13:1-9. At that very time there were some present who told him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. 2He asked them, “Do you think that because these Galileans suffered in Read more

  • The Road To Jerusalem Is Paved With The Stones of Rejection

    Today is the Second Sunday in Lent. The collect and readings for the day may be found here. The appointed gospel is Luke 13:31-35: 31At that very hour some Pharisees came and said to him, “Get away from here, for Herod wants to kill you.” 32He said to them, “Go and tell that fox for Read more

  • Whom Do I Treat Unjustly?

    “But whom do I treat unjustly,” you say, “by keeping what is my own?” Tell me, what is your own? What did you bring into this life? From where did you receive it? It is as if someone were to take the first seat in the theatre, then bar everyone else from attending, so that Read more

  • Ash Wednesday – Finding our Place in Death

    At some level we all look for and try to create our place in life – a place where we belong, are accepted, liked, recognized, approved of, wanted, loved. To not find this place is in some way to face the reality of death, to be isolated and alone. And while we know death is Read more

  • Thin Places, Veils, and Transfiguration

    Yesterday was the Last Sunday after the Epiphany. The collect and readings for the day may be found here. The appointed gospel was Luke 9:28-43: 28Now about eight days after these sayings Jesus took with him Peter and John and James, and went up on the mountain to pray. 29And while he was praying, the Read more

  • What Are You Giving Up For Lent?

    “What are you giving up for Lent?” I suspect we have all heard this question many times. We have probably even asked it of another or ourselves. Unfortunately, it seems this one question often sets the tone for the season of Lent. The Ash Wednesday liturgy calls us to observe a Holy Lent, in part, Read more

  • An Invitation to a Holy Lent

    This Wednesday, February 17, is for the Episcopal and many other churches Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent. The following words come from the Proper Liturgy for Ash Wednesday: “I invite you, therefore, in the name of the Church, to the observance of a holy Lent, by self-examination and repentance; by prayer, fasting, and self-denial; Read more

  • “You can’t touch me. I’ve been baptized!”

    Today is the First Sunday after the Epiphany. On this day we always celebrate the Feast of the Baptism of our Lord. The collect and readings for today may be found here. Since the readings from Isaiah and Luke seem connected I have included both below. Isaiah 43:1-7 Thus says the Lord, he who created Read more

  • The Ecstasy of Christmas

    The collect and readings for Christmas Day may be found here. The appointed gospel was John 1:1-14. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2He was in the beginning with God. 3All things came into being through him, and without him not one thing came into being. Read more