Lent 5 A Scrutiny "Exiting Tombs" ~ Susan McGurgan
There are seasons in my life --and maybe in yours-- when it seems like the Good News whispers while the Bad News shouts. A friend faces a...
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- Mar 8, 2021
- 3 min
Lent 4B "Things We Carry" ~ Rev. Jim Schmitmeyer
They had been driven from their homes like cattle… forced to march through rugged land to a foreign country. We’re talking about the...
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susan mcgurgan
- Mar 2, 2021
- 6 min
Lent 3B "Fools for Christ" ~ Rev. Richard Eslinger
St. Paul is writing a letter to the Christians at Corinth because he is very familiar with that congregation. After all, he founded the...
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susan mcgurgan
- Mar 2, 2021
- 5 min
Lent 3 Scrutiny "Something in the Water" ~ Susan McGurgan
It was the kind of day when the hills shimmered in the heat and the sun offered the illusion of water- just a little further down the...
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susan mcgurgan
- Feb 22, 2021
- 4 min
Lent 2B "Faces toward Jerusalem, Feet toward the Cross" ~ Susan McGurgan
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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susan mcgurgan
- Feb 22, 2021
- 2 min
Lent 2 B "Bustin' Colts at the Siloam Corral" ~ Fr. Jim Schmitmeyer
If God is for us, who can be against us? The colt stood saddled, his eyes as calm as the Pool of Siloam. Then, the moment I pulled the ...
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susan mcgurgan
- Feb 16, 2021
- 3 min
Lent 1 B "Eye Chart" ~ Fr. Jim Schmitmeyer
There’s a Texas Country song that goes like this: Storms running through the Midwest Like a bandit out on the loose. All the clouds are...
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susan mcgurgan
- Feb 16, 2021
- 4 min
Lent 1 B "I Have Set My Bow" ~ Susan McGurgan
I have set my bow in the clouds to serve as a sign of the covenant between me and the earth. When I bring clouds over the earth, and the...
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susan mcgurgan
- Feb 8, 2021
- 4 min
6th Sunday OT B ~ Something Messy, Something Big ~ Dr. Susan McGurgan
We are soon entering the season of Lent, and for the second year, we will enter it masked and distanced, sanitized, gloved and Covid...
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susan mcgurgan
- Feb 2, 2021
- 7 min
5th Sunday OTB~Rev. Richard Eslinger
Imagine you are invited to join on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. At the airport you are met by your guide and ushered onto the bus, off...
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susan mcgurgan
- Feb 2, 2021
- 2 min
5th Sunday OTB~ Fr. Jim Schmitmeyer/The Truth about Solitude
Does this gospel sound familiar to you? It should. After all, it contains a lot of familiar things: A mother-in-law with a headache....
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susan mcgurgan
- Jan 25, 2021
- 3 min
4th Sunday OT B ~ Dr. Susan McGurgan "Sabbath Morning in Capernaum"
It is Sabbath morning in Capernaum, and the smell of last night’s catch still lingers on the breeze and rises from the boats now anchored...
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susan mcgurgan
- Jan 25, 2021
- 3 min
4th Sunday OT B~ Fr. Jim Schmitmeyer "Screamin' Demons"
Demons. Now, there’s a modern-day concept!” Demons? No sooner than I read that word, I was already considering the first or second...
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susan mcgurgan
- Jan 18, 2021
- 4 min
3rd Sunday OT Fr. Jim Schmitmeyer
Come and See Homily for the Third Sunday of the Year It was a quiet night in the lakeside village of Santiago Atitlán. Sounds travel far...
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susan mcgurgan
- Jan 15, 2021
- 3 min
Coming Undone
3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time January 22, 2021 Dr. Susan Fleming McGurgan What are you looking for? That seemingly innocuous question; that...
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