In the Parish

Pentecost 25B -- End of the World As We Know It

Reading: Mark 13:1-8

7th Sunday of Easter -- Intimate Union

Reading: John 17:6-19 Jesus' prayer to the Father before his crucifixion reflects the deep intimacy the Father and Son share. We are brought into this intimate relationship through baptism and sustained in it with the Eucharist.

Fifth Sunday of Easter -- Love Comes to Town

Reading: 1 John 4:7-21 John 15:1-8 The love of God is a transformative action upon us, not just a warm and fuzzy feeling.

Fourth Sunday of Easter -- I Know My Own

Reading: John 10:11-18 Jesus promises that he knows his own. Our identity then is dependent on his naming of us, and not on anything else.

2nd Sunday of Easter -- Sin Isn't Small, and Jesus Is Still Bigger

Reading: 1 John 1:1-2:2 Acts 4:32-35 John 20:19-31 We have been convinced that sin is something small and insignificant, making the words from1 John ring hollow. But they remain true because sin is much bigger than we are led to believe. Sin is cosmic and we participate in it even without knowing. But Jesus is bigger even than it for he has conquered it in the resurrection.

Easter 2012 -- Hope Abounding

Reading: John 20:1-18

Maundy Thursday -- The Good News of Ambiguity

Reading: 1 Corinthian 11:23-32

5th Sunday in Lent -- Unless a Grain of Wheat Falls

Reading: John 12:20-33

4th Sunday after Epiphany -- Powerful Names

Reading: Mark 1: 21-28

3rd Sunday after Epiphany -- Heroism Undone

Reading: Mark 1:14-20