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Preach This Week ~ Sunday homily
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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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...
May 275 min read
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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...
May 213 min read
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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...
May 83 min read
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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...
Apr 295 min read
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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...
Apr 253 min read
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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...
Apr 155 min read
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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...
Apr 92 min read
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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...
Apr 18 min read
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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...
Mar 243 min read
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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...
Mar 203 min read
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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...
Mar 124 min read
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