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What is your image of God? On this third Sunday of Advent we are given a charming but challenging image of God in the first (Hebrew Scripture) reading: The Lord, your God, is in your midst … he will rejoice over you with gladness … he will sing joyfully because…
Today’s Blog entry is written by Jenna Legg, who serves Vocation Ministry Coordinator for our congregation. Jenna offers a reflection on the struggle that often exists in responding to God’s call. While Advent is usually expressed as a season of “joyful hope” and preparedness, I also believe there is a…
The first part of our Gospel this Sunday is like the introduction to a book, which is great since this is only the second Sunday of our new liturgical year, Year C, the Gospel of Luke year. So we hear about characters who will turn up again later in Luke’s…
On this first Sunday of Advent we begin a new liturgical year, Year C of our three-year cycle of Sunday Scriptures. This year many of our Sunday Scriptures will be from the Gospel of Luke. Today’s Lukan Gospel passage sounds frightening. Luke’s Gospel was written around the year 85 C.E.…
At a recent liturgy, as I was reciting the familiar Trinitarian formula and signing myself, I became acutely aware of what I was actually doing. Too often these ritual signs become habitual and intentionality is lost. But this day I was struck by how an act of violence became a sign of…
The Kingdom is the image Jesus used to speak about our true place, our true place both here on earth during our historical existence, and our true place after death. Above all it is one place, whether on earth or in heaven! It is a place that mirrors the goodness,…
It’s that time of year when we hear apocalyptic Scriptures, today’s from the Book of Revelation and the Gospel of Mark. This highly imaginative and symbolic writing was meant to both warn and reassure people facing death-dealing forces around them. So these Scriptures invite us to look at death-dealing forces…
In the first (Hebrew Scripture) reading and the Gospel reading this Sunday, two widows illustrate one teaching. In the first reading, a poor widow living in the midst of terrible famine is making a final meal for herself and her son; the prophet Elijah asks her to share it. In…
Hear or listen, from our first reading (Deuteronomy 6:2-6) connotes “Always remember, never forget!” “Remember now!” What the people are to remember is that the Lord is our God, the Lord alone. This religious mantra unites Jews, Muslims and Christians. And this mantra is the context for the rest of…
In Sunday’s Gospel, a blind beggar named Bartimaeus, ignored by the crowd traveling with Jesus, is invited by Jesus to come forward. We catch a glimpse of his personality. He casts his cloak away — his most prized possession, the thing that kept him warm while sleeping rough at night…
