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Seventh Sunday after Pentecost, Proper 12: Hosea 1:2-10; Psalm 85;Colossians 2:6-15, (16-19); Luke 11:1-13 “Lord, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples.” So, like many of us, the disciples were not sure they knew how to pray. It’s reassuring, isn’t it? And so in today’s reading we have Jesus offering the prayer we…

Sixth Sunday after Pentecost, July 20, 2025: Amos 8:1-12; Psalm 52; Colossians 1:15-28; Luke 10:38-42 Today’s gospel brings us the story of Mary and Martha. It’s a familiar story, and there’s not much new to say about it. Jesus comes to the house, and Mary sits and listens to him. Martha fusses with her “many…

Fifth Sunday after Pentecost, July 13,2025 (Proper 10): Amos 7:7-17; Psalm 82; Colossians 1:1-14; Luke 10:25-37 Today’s Gospel reading is one of the most familiar readings in the Bible. Many of us were introduced to it as children, with a focus on the Good Samaritan who helped the man in the ditch. This part of…

Fourth Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 9), July 6, 2025: 2 Kings 5:1-14; Psalm 30; Galatians 6:(1-6)7-16; Luke 10:1-11, 16-20 For the third week in a row, the epistle is a reading from Galatians. As you all remember, Paul is engaged in an extended argument about what is necessary for Christians: do those who were not…

Second Sunday after Pentecost, June 22, 2025: 1 Kings 19:1-4, (5-7), 8-15a;Psalm 42 and 43; Galatians 3:23-29; Luke 8:26-39 I was going to write today about how God comes to us in a sound of sheer silence. And maybe I was going to write something about how the passage from Galatians has been misused to…

Trinity Sunday, June 15, 2025: Proverbs 8:1-4, 22-31; Romans 5:1-5; John 16:12-15; Psalm 8or Canticle 13 Years ago, a clergy friend told me that Trinity Sunday was the Sunday you always wanted a guest preacher, because most people only have so much to say about the Trinity. The Trinity is both central to Christianity, and…

Pentecost, June 8, 2025: Acts 2:1-21; Romans 8:14-17; John 14:8-17, (25-27); Psalm 104:25-35, 37 “Each one heard them speaking in the native language of each.” The miracle of Pentecost was that the disciples, filled with the Holy Spirit, were able to be understood by all those in Jerusalem, people from all parts of the vast…

Seventh Sunday of Easter, 1 June 2025: Acts 16:16-34; Revelation 22:12-14,16-17,20-21; John 17:20-26; Psalm 97 “I made your name known to them“ It’s the last Sunday of Easter, and Jesus is making sure not only that he is known by his disciples, but by those who believe in Jesus through them. What is important to…

Sixth Sunday of Easter: Psalm 67; Acts 16:9-15; Revelation 21:10, 22-22:5; John 5:1-9 The man had been ill for 38 years. That’s a LONG time. He had made it to the pool at Beth-zatha, but had never been able to actually reach its healing waters: he had no one to help him. The healing power…

Fifth Sunday of Easter, May 18, 2025: Acts 11:1-18; Revelation 21:1-6;John 13:31-35; Psalm 148 Today’s lessons give us both a vision of life on earth in the presence of God, and instructions on how to be there. The vision helps us know why we do what we do: See, the home of God is among…