Category Archives: sermon

Year B Proper 24: Sunday sermon spoiler alert

Posted on October 19, 2012 by Rosalind C Hughes

“You do not know what you are asking.” One commentator that I read this week suggested that when James and John asked to sit at the right and the left hand of Jesus when he came into his glory, they … Continue reading →

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Choices

Posted on October 15, 2012 by Rosalind C Hughes

From today’s lectionary selection: “When the swineherds saw what had happened, they ran off and told it in the city and in the country. Then people came out to see what had happened, and when they came to Jesus, they … Continue reading →

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Year B Proper 23: sermon

Posted on October 14, 2012 by Rosalind C Hughes

A sermon for October 14th 2012, preached at Church of the Epiphany, Euclid, Ohio There’s a novel by Nick Hornby which I read some years ago called How to Be Good.* In it, the protagonist, an ordinary, grumpy, middle-aged man, … Continue reading →

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Year B Proper 23: Some novel assistance

Posted on October 13, 2012 by Rosalind C Hughes

Some further deliberations on the rich young man gospel (Mark 10: 17-31), with help from a Nick Hornby novel.* (Sunday sermon spoiler alert!): There’s a novel by Nick Hornby which I read some years ago called How to be Good. … Continue reading →

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Year B Proper 23: Poor little rich boy

Posted on October 11, 2012 by Rosalind C Hughes

“No one is good but God.” It was a warning. It was the truth. The rich young ruler had plenty of responsibilities weighing him down like heavy garments, like fur rugs and gold chains. He was weary; he was worried. … Continue reading →

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Miracles

Posted on October 9, 2012 by Rosalind C Hughes

“He went to a town called Nain, and hid disciples and a large crowd went with him. As he approached the gate of the town, a man who had died was being carried out. He was his mother’s only son, … Continue reading →

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Year B Proper 22: Little children

Posted on October 7, 2012 by Rosalind C Hughes

A sermon for my first Sunday at Church of the Epiphany, Euclid, Ohio – October 7, 2012 I think that, with your indulgence, I’ll save talking about Jesus’ take on divorce and remarriage for when we have got to know … Continue reading →

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William Tyndale and the passionate vocation

Posted on October 5, 2012 by Rosalind C Hughes

A homily for the Thursday morning Eucharist at Bexley Hall Episcopal Seminary, October 4, 2012 William Tyndale was a man with a passion, a man with a mission, with a calling so strong it drove him crazy. How else to … Continue reading →

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Year B Proper 21: salted with fire

Posted on September 27, 2012 by Rosalind C Hughes

It was bedtime, so I gave the fire a stir to make sure it really was dying down, and of course, as fires are wont to do when stirred up, it sprang back into life. So the cat and I … Continue reading →

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Year B Proper 20: mixed motives

Posted on September 21, 2012 by Rosalind C Hughes

We are complicated creatures, we humans. We can hear a dogmatic statement that “whoever wants to be first must be last of all and servant of all,” and right away, we can begin competing to come last, to be the … Continue reading →

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