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In 2019, the January 6th date of the Feast of Epiphany falls on Sunday; in other years the feast is “transferred” to the closest Sunday. Epiphany means a manifestation, an “appearance,” a mind-altering insight into something. The Gospel we read today is from Matthew’s “infancy narrative,” the story of the…
The Feast of the Holy Family is celebrated today. Our Gospel is the story, found only in the Gospel of Luke, about how Jesus was traveling with his family to Jerusalem for the feast of Passover and became “lost.” But as he explains patiently to his parents, he really was…
All stories are true, and some of them really happen! This is a saying I developed for speaking with people about narrative types of writing in our Scriptures. This Sunday we have a piece of Luke’s “infancy narrative,” the visit between the newly pregnant Mary and her cousin Elizabeth, also…
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…