Interrupting the Silence

Category: Lectionary

  • A Sermon for Good Friday, John 18:1-19:42

    The collect and readings for Good Friday may be found here. The appointed gospel is John 18:1-19:42. What do you see when you look at the cross? The sin of the world? Suffering, pain, loss? Sorrow, separation, death? To some degree all that is present in the crucifixion. No doubt, all of those things are Read more

  • A Sermon for Maundy Thursday, John 13:1-17, 31-35

    The collect and readings for Maundy Thursday may be found here. The appointed gospel is John 13:1-17, 31-35, Jesus washing the disciples’ feet. Now before the festival of the Passover, Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart from this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the Read more

  • A Sermon for Wednesday in Holy Week, John 13:21-32

    The collect and readings for Wednesday in Holy Week may be found here. The appointed gospel is John 13:21-32. After saying this Jesus was troubled in spirit, and declared, “Very truly, I tell you, one of you will betray me.” The disciples looked at one another, uncertain of whom he was speaking. One of his Read more

  • A Sermon for Tuesday in Holy Week, John 12:20-33

    The collect and readings for Tuesday in Holy Week may be found here. The appointed gospel is John 12:20-33. Now among those who went up to worship at the festival were some Greeks. They came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and said to him, “Sir, we wish to see Jesus.” Philip went Read more

  • A Sermon for Monday in Holy Week, John 12:1-11

    The collect and readings for Monday in Holy Week May be found here. The appointed gospel is John 12:1-11. Six days before the Passover Jesus came to Bethany, the home of Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead. There they gave a dinner for him. Martha served, and Lazarus was one of those at Read more

  • Jesus, The Man of Turmoil – A Sermon on Matthew 21:1-11, Palm Sunday

    The collect and readings for today, Sunday of the Passion: Palm Sunday, may be found here. Today’s liturgy brings together the palms and the passion with two readings from the Gospel according to St. Matthew. The following sermon is based on the Palm Sunday gospel, Matthew 21:1-11. When they had come near Jerusalem and had Read more

  • Unbinding Stinky George – A Sermon on John 11:1-45, Lent 5A

    The collect and readings for the Fifth Sunday in Lent may be found here. The appointed gospel is John 11:1-45, the raising of Lazarus. Now a certain man was ill, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. Mary was the one who anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped his feet Read more

  • “Surely we are not blind, are we?” – A Sermon on John 9:1-41, Lent 4A

    The collect and readings for the Fourth Sunday in Lent may be found here. The appointed gospel is John 9:1-41. As he walked along, he saw a man blind from birth. His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” Jesus answered, “Neither this man nor his Read more

  • Found Out and Known – A Sermon on John 4:5-42, Lent 3A

    The collect and readings for today, the Third Sunday in Lent, may be found here. The appointed gospel is John 4:5-42, the story about the woman at the well. Jesus came to a Samaritan city called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. Jacob’s well was there, and Read more