Fourth Sunday after Pentecost
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Readings – Joshua 5: 9-12; Psalm 32; II Corinthians 5: 16-21; Luke 15: 1-3,11b-32 As you may know, I am the eldest of five children, Bruce, Jay, Ann and Sui. I have an affinity for the eldest son in our Gospel reading of today. The usual tactic is to focus on the embracing, outstretched arms…
Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost
Readings – I Kings 8: 1, 6,10-11, 22-30, 41-43; Psalm 84; Ephesians 6: 10-20; John 6: 56-69 Let’s spend some time with the first reading, the long reading, from I Kings. We know very little about the first temple of Israel in Shiloh. We know that it is where the boy Samuel served the elderly…
Fourth Sunday after Pentecost
Readings – Deuteronomy 10:17-21; Psalm 145; Hebrews 11:8-16; Matthew 5:43-48 “To be partners with Christ with the love of God with the love of God on our lips and in our lives” is our current mission statement of the Diocese of Central Pennsylvania as posted on our hallway wall. From the Gospel according to St….
Palm Sunday
Reading of the Passion Narrative according to Matthew 26: 14-27: 66 NARRATOR: One of the twelve, who was called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests and said, JUDAS: What will you give me if I betray Jesus to you? NARRATOR: The priests paid him thirty pieces of silver. And from that moment Judas began…
Second Sunday after Pentecost
I Kings 19:1-15a; Psalm 42; Galatians 3:23-39; Luke 8:26-39 There are days when I read and watch the news, and I feel like the author of the 42nd Psalm. V.6 Why are you so full of heaviness, O my soul? And why are you so disquieted within me? The Psalmist repeats the lament. V. 14…
