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16 OT C ~ Dragon Slayer ~ Lk 10:38-42 Susan McGurgan, D.Min.
As so often happens with scripture, we tend to glide over the surface of this story of Martha and Mary, smoothing out the rough corners,...
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Jul 16, 20257 min read
15 OT C Lk 10:25-37 ~ "The Jericho Road" ~ Susan McGurgan, D. Min.
Who is my neighbor? The scholar in this passage asked Jesus this question because, like all of us, he knew that loving others is often...
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Jul 8, 20253 min read
14 OT C ~ Lk 10:1-12, 17-20~ "Dusty Sandals and Christ's Sending" ~Rev. Richard Eslinger, PhD
“Now is the time for this mission,” Jesus announces. Seventy-two will be sent out, sent to towns and places he intends to go. Two by two,...
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Jun 30, 20255 min read
Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul, Apostles ~ "Change" ~ Rev. Benjamin Roberts, D.Min.
Today the Church celebrates the feast of St. Peter and St. Paul. This is the patronal feast of the city of Rome, because both Peter and...
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Jun 25, 20253 min read
The Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ ~ Susan McGurgan, D.Min.
It sat like a gleaming jewel right smack in the middle of a poor town’s poorest neighborhood. It was nothing fancy, really— just a...
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Jun 20, 20254 min read
Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity ~ Susan McGurgan, D.Min.
It was just about 25 years ago, when I was sitting in my office, arranging and re-arranging the stacks on my desk, and staring at the...
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Jun 11, 20255 min read
Ascension of the Lord, C ~ "Waiting for the Lord" ~ Rev. Richard Eslinger, PhD
These forty days, the precious days between Easter and Ascension, were utterly unique. A singularity! Here was Jesus, crucified and risen...
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May 27, 20255 min read
Easter 6 C ~ "Saved?" ~ Susan McGurgan, D.Min.
Unless you are circumcised according to the Mosaic practice, you cannot be saved.” Who is saved? When I was a kid growing up smack on...
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May 21, 20253 min read
Easter 4 C ~ Jn 10:27-30 "Hear my Voice" Susan McGurgan, D.Min.
My sheep hear my voice. God’s voice shattered the silence of the void with a Word. God speaks and Hope becomes incarnate, pitching a tent...
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May 8, 20253 min read
Easter 3 C ~ Jn. 21:1-14~ "Come Have Breakfast: ~ Rev. Richard Eslinger, PhD
St. John continues his rather ambiguous treatment of the disciples’ recognition that Jesus had indeed been raised from the dead. To be...
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Apr 29, 20255 min read
Easter 2 C ~ "Mercy Finds Us" ~ Rev. Benjamin Roberts, D.Min.
Last Sunday, we found an empty tomb. This Sunday, we find mercy. Perhaps it is better to say that this Sunday, mercy finds us. The...
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Apr 25, 20253 min read
The Resurrection of the Lord, Mass of Easter Day ~ Rev. Richard Eslinger, PhD
It is very early on the first day of the week when Mary Magdala comes to the tomb. In fact, it is still dark. She does not come with any...
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Apr 15, 20255 min read
Palm Sunday of the Lord's Passion ~ "Deep Wounds" ~ Rev. Benjamin Roberts, D.Min.
I read the passion of Jesus and I am convicted by one question. How shallow is my faith? When I hear of the arrest, the trial, the...
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Apr 9, 20252 min read
Lent 5 C ~Jn 8:1-11 ~ "Crossing the Kidron" ~ Rev. Richard Eslinger, PhD
The span of earth from Jerusalem to the Mount of Olives is etched into our spiritual geography. The heights of the Holy City are capped...
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Apr 1, 20258 min read
Lent 4 ~Lk 15:1-3, 11-32 ~ "Robe, Ring and Sandals" ~ Rev. Benjamin Roberts, D.Min.
One of my favorite passages in the Scriptures was the first reading last Sunday. The passage shows Moses going up the mountain, taking...
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Mar 24, 20253 min read
Lent 3 C ~ Ex. 3:1-8a, 13-15 ~ "Holy Ground" ~ Susan McGurgan
A young Ukrainian violinist, standing alone in a basement in Kyiv, plays a haunting arrangement of an old Ukrainian folk song, filming...
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Mar 20, 20253 min read
Lent 2 C~ Lk9:28b-36 ~"Beloved" ~ Susan McGurgan, D.Min.
From his miraculous birth to his baptism in the waters of the Jordan— from the feeding of the five thousand to the empty tomb on Easter...
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Mar 12, 20254 min read
Lent 1 C ~ Lk 4:1-13 ~ "Company in the Wilderness" ~ Rev. Richard Eslinger, PhD
St. Luke sets the scene quickly and with attention to the key details. Jesus has been baptized at the Jordan by John and now a new drama...
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Mar 5, 20256 min read
8 OT C ~ Lk. 6:39-45 ~"The Store of Goodness" ~ Rev. Richard Eslinger, PhD
In his sermon on the plain, Jesus provides sayings that instruct his followers in the way of life. We hear him tell us, “Good fruit”...
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Feb 25, 20256 min read
7 OT C ~ Lk 6:27-38 ~ "A New Vision" ~ Rev. Benjamin Roberts, D.Min.
A friend of mine is a judge and we were talking one day about the sacrament of reconciliation. She said that my job was a little like...
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Feb 18, 20253 min read
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