Sermon for Sunday, April 20th 2025 – Easter Sunday

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The Sunday of the Resurrection: Easter Day 2025, rcl yr cISAIAH 65:17-25; PSALM 118:1-2, 14-24; ACTS 10:34-43; LUKE 24:1-12 when they went in, they did not find the body Finding is an important theme running through Luke’s Gospel. Animals, like lost sheep, are found by shepherds. And a colt is found for Jesus to ride into Jerusalem. […]

Sermon for Saturday, April 19th 2025 – Easter Vigil

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April 19, 2025Vigil of Easter But they did not believe the women, because it seemed to them an idle tale. Friends, please be seated. 25 years ago, I worked on an English translation of the Easter Sermon of John Chrysostom. St. John Chrysostom was born in Antioch around the year 347 into a military family. […]

Sermon for Sunday, April 13th 2025 – Palm Sunday – Mitigated hope

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Palm Sunday, April 13, 2025Luke 19:28-40St. John the Evangelist, Kitchener Mitigated hope ‘Blessed is the One who comes in the name of the Lord.’ Please be seated. Humbled as I am by the invitation to offer a Palm Sunday homily as part of this Liturgy of the Palms and the Passion, Preston’s invitation included a […]

Sermon for Sunday, April 6th 2025 – 5th Sunday in Lent – consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus

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Fifth Sunday in Lent, rcl yr c, 2025Rom. 6: 3-11; ISAIAH 43:16-21; PSALM 126; PHILIPPIANS 3:4b-14; JN 12:1-8 consider yourselves dead to sinand alive to God in Christ Jesus Neither Jesus, nor Judas, come off all that well today, in different ways. Judas, upon seeing Mary pour out a year’s worth of wages in the […]

Sermon for Sunday, March 30th 2025

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Fourth Sunday in Lent, 2025, rcl yr cJOSHUA 5:9-12; PSALM 32; 2 CORINTHIANS 5:16-21; LUKE 15:1-3, 11b-32 [W]hen he came to himself he said …I will get up and go to my father, and I will say to him,Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you” I’m not sure I actually like the prodigal […]

Sermon for Sunday, March 23rd 2025 – Third Sunday in Lent – unless you repent, you will all perish as they did

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Third Sunday in Lent, rcl yr c, 2025ISAIAH 55:1-9; PSALM 63:1-8; 1 CORINTHIANS 10:1-13; LUKE 13:1-9 unless you repent, you will all perish as they did The parable of the fig tree that closes the Gospel reading this morning is a weird one. I mean, most of the parables are a bit odd and sometimes […]

Sermon for Sunday, March 16th 2025

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March 16, 2025Lent 2 Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord. Friends, please be seated. I want to take a look at our Gospel and to tease out a few thoughts from there. The text begins with a word from some Pharisees to Jesus. They want to warn Jesus that […]

Sermon for Sunday, March 9th 2025

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First Sunday in Lent, rcl yr c, 2025DEUTERONOMY 26:1-11; PSALM 91:1-2, 9-16; ROMANS 10:8b-13; LUKE 4:1-13 You are my refuge and my stronghold, my God in whom I put my trust. There is a way that we can read this story of Jesus tempted in the wilderness as a story about human—that is, yours, mine, […]

Sermon for Ash Wednesday, March 5th 2025

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Ash Wednesday, March 5th, 2025JOEL 2:1-2, 12-17; PSALM 103:8-18; 2 COR. 5:20b-6:10; MATTHEW 6:1-6, 16-21 you despise nothing you have made There is a certain kind of truthfulness, and honesty, that comes with observing Lent. It’s particularly honest and truthful about the conditions of life we face as creatures—as creatures we are fragile, we are […]

Sermon for Sunday, March 2nd 2025

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Last Sunday after the Epiphany: Transfiguration Sunday, rcl yr c, 2025EXODUS 34:29-35; PSALM 99; 2 CORINTHIANS 3:12-4:2; LUKE 9:28-36 we do not lose heart There’s some comfort to be found, I hope, in readings like we have today. Comfort, hope, and consolation, for two reasons. First: there’s comfort in just how dumb the disciples can […]