Tag: Holy Week
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Sermons For The Triduum 2025
Below are my sermons from the Triduum this year: Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday, and Easter. Though we might experience each day’s liturgy as separate, they are in reality one liturgy. There is no dismissal after Maundy Thursday. We leave in silence. The Good Friday liturgy begins and ends in silence, again without a Read more
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Courage – A Holy Saturday Sermon On John 19:38-42
Today the shadow of Good Friday is long and dark. Yesterday’s nightmare did not end with this morning’s sunrise. If anything, today, Holy Saturday, only confirms what has been lost. It really did happen. The messenger of God’s love, peace, and nonviolence; the one who was anointed to bring good news to the poor, release Read more
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Now It Is Up To Us – A Good Friday Sermon On John 18:1-19:42
“‘It is finished.’ Then Jesus bowed his head and gave up his spirit.” “It is finished.” Those are not the words of a winner who accomplished his task. They are the words of a witness who, God help him, testified to the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth: – The truth about Read more
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Let’s Get Personal – A Maundy Thursday Sermon On John 13:1-17, 31-35
I’ve come to believe that this night, Maundy Thursday, just might be the most difficult day of Holy Week. I think we would rather glory in the cross of Christ than expose our feet. I think we would rather marvel at the empty tomb than feel the altar of our life stripped bare. Maybe that’s Read more
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A Betrayable Life – A Sermon on John 13:21-32 For Wednesday In Holy Week
It’s easy and tempting to look at today’s gospel (John 13:21-32) and cast Jesus as the victim and Judas as the villain. It seems to be the usual interpretation. Maybe that’s a projection of our own experience of being betrayed. We feel like the victim. But Jesus never cast himself as the victim. He doesn’t Read more
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Our Jerusalem Road – A Palm Sunday Sermon On Luke 19:28-40
I have a lot of ambivalence and hesitancy about today. It’s one thing to hear the story of Jesus riding a donkey into Jerusalem knowing what will happen to him. It’s another thing when we realize it is our story too – and it always is. Let me give you a few examples, some modern Read more
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Sermons For Holy Week And Easter Sunday 2024
Alleluia. Christ is risen. Thank you for reading and supporting Interrupting the Silence. I am grateful for your presence through this past Holy Week and into Easter. O God, whose blessed Son made himself known to hisdisciples in the breaking of bread: Open the eyes of our faith,that we may behold him in all his Read more
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Waiting For A New Truth – A Sermon On Matthew 27:57-66 For Holy Saturday
I thought October 1st, 2009, was the worst day Cyndy and I had ever experienced. That was the day our older son died. Then October 2nd came, the day after. I thought May 24th, 2022, was the worst day Uvalde had ever experienced. That was the day of the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School. Read more
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Dying To Tell The Truth – A Sermon On John 18.1-19:42 For Good Friday
“That’s not a ditch I’m willing to die in.” You know that saying, right? You’ve probably heard others say it. Maybe you’ve said it. The thing that strikes me about that saying is that I’ve never heard anyone say, “That is a ditch I’m willing to die in.” Have you? And neither have I said Read more
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