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Year C Easter 6: Light
Light is really special. During the last couple of centuries, scientists began to discover some really quite counter-intuitive things about light, the way that light moves, acts, has its being. We think of light as beams, rays, waves. But light … Continue reading
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Tagged EInstein, Genesis, God's face, let there be light, light, new heaven and new earth, particles, Planck, Revelation 21-22, the Lamb, wreckers
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Year C Easter 5: What God has made
Last Monday, in case you missed it, was Earth Day; so it’s great and wonderful that our garden project is getting underway, taking advantage of the bounty of creation that God gave into our hands. According to the stories of … Continue reading
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Tagged Acts 11, Boston bombers, Cybermen, diversity, Doctor Who, Earth Day, Genesis 1, kosher, Plain Dealer, Star Trek, the Borg, Year C Easter 5
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Year C Easter 4: Washed in the blood of the Lamb
For the past several years, on the Sunday of the Cleveland Marathon, Trinity Cathedral, our Episcopal cathedral downtown, has taken to the streets during its education hour between services to cheer on the runners. The youth group and Sunday school … Continue reading
Year C Easter 3: Paying attention
God would like our attention, please. It seems to me that the very different stories in today’s lectionary selections have the common theme of God getting someone’s, or some-two’s, or everyone under heaven and earth’s attention. Hey! Listen up! Pay … Continue reading
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Tagged Acts 9:1-20, attention, Eucharist, God, Jesus, John 21:1-19, Mary Oliver, Revelation 5:11-14, road to Damascus, Saul, Year C Easter 3
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For Thomas
Thought for the second Sunday of Easter: when you are doubtful, uncertain; when you stumble through grief and tears cloud your vision as they fall; be kind to yourself. Remember, Jesus came back especially for Thomas.
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Tagged doubt, Easter 2, Jesus, kindness, Thomas
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The spiritual gift of doubt
Blessed are those who can live with certainty, who can bear the burden of sureness. Because in certainty there is no need for hope; sureness has no need for trust. Some of us are not so strong. We cannot live … Continue reading
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Tagged certainty, Comforter, doubt, fear, hope, John 20:19-31, Thomas Sunday, Year C Easter 2
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Easter 2013: Aslan is on the move
Why do you look for the living among the dead? It is the question of Easter morning. Why are these women coming to the tomb carrying their supplies of bodily embalming, their perfumes and their potions to preserve the dead, … Continue reading
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Tagged Aslan, C.S. Lewis, Christ, Easter, He is Risen, Jesus, Luke 24:1-12, Resurrection, The Lion the Witch & the Wardrobe, the living among the dead
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Great Vigil of Easter: 2013 update
(For the fire and water demo that accompanies this sermon, see last year’s offering: https://rosalindhughes.com/2012/04/07/easter-vigil-sermon-new-fire-and-living-water/) New fire and living water. Extremes of existence, held together by the cross and the resurrection, like life and death. Fire. It falls from the … Continue reading
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Tagged baptism, cross, Easter, fire, Great Vigil, Jesus, oil of chrism, Resurrection, water
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Maundy Thursday: the sacrament of love
Ambrose, Bishop of Milan in one of the early centuries of the church, believed that the washing of feet instituted by Jesus was as sacramental, as important and as necessary as the two sacraments that the churches have all ended … Continue reading
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Tagged Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, disciples, foot washing, Last Supper, love, Maundy Thursday, sacraments
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