Category Archives: sermon

Serpent

Posted on March 13, 2012 by Rosalind C Hughes

Fashion your fear in all its detail. Make your sin shiny, sleek and dangerous. Fill its fangs with all the venom you can muster. Gaze upon it, and know that you are greater than the thing which you create.   … Continue reading →

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Year B Lent 3: Superstitions and the first commandment

Posted on March 11, 2012 by Rosalind C Hughes

The rest of the sermon: God spoke these words: I am the Lord your God … you shall have no other gods before me. You shall not make for yourself an idol … you shall not bow down to them or worship … Continue reading →

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Superstitions and the first commandment

Posted on March 9, 2012 by Rosalind C Hughes

Looking towards Sunday, I read this in the Oxford Bible Commentary about the Exodus reading (Ex0dus 10: 1-17): “Modern preachers interpret this [the first] command in a moralistic way: anything which absorbs a person’s devotion is his/her god … But this is … Continue reading →

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Lent-check

Posted on March 7, 2012 by Rosalind C Hughes

Matthew 20: 17-28 Jesus predicts his suffering and death – and the disciples’ response still leaves a little something to be desired. They have got past last Sunday’s denial of the whole horrible thing – they can, perhaps by now, bring themselves … Continue reading →

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Year B Lent 2: The cross: hoping against hope

Posted on March 3, 2012 by Rosalind C Hughes

Jesus began to teach his disciples that he, the Son of Man, must undergo great suffering and be rejected by his own people, and killed, and after three days rise again. The promise of God with us is a strange … Continue reading →

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A Tuesday lunchtime homily

Posted on February 28, 2012 by Rosalind C Hughes

A homily for today’s Eucharist. We used the weekdays of Lent lectionary: Isaiah 55: 6-11 Seek the Lord while he may be found, call upon him while he is near; let the wicked forsake their way, and the unrighteous their … Continue reading →

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Year B: Last Sunday after the Epiphany

Posted on February 14, 2012 by Rosalind C Hughes

When I told my youngest child that my mother had died, she said, “But she was supposed to get better!” A week or so later, when I was talking to my father about talking to an old friend, he asked, … Continue reading →

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Year B Epiphany 6: people first

Posted on February 10, 2012 by Rosalind C Hughes

I mentioned earlier this week the ecumenical lectionary group that I am blessed to attend each Tuesday morning, and my colleagues’ influence on my understanding of this Sunday’s readings. A few days later, I am still grappling with one of the effects of hearing, … Continue reading →

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Year B Epiphany 6: Who does he think I am?

Posted on February 8, 2012 by Rosalind C Hughes

 I’m not preaching this Sunday, but I did attend my regular weekly appointment with an ecumenical group of local preachers yesterday, and this is what struck me when I listened to the reading from 2 Kings (once more realizing that … Continue reading →

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Year B Epiphany 5: Starry, starry night

Posted on February 5, 2012 by Rosalind C Hughes

A sermon for Epiphany 5 and Healing Eucharist at St Andrew’s Episcopal Church, Elyria, Ohio. Isaiah 40: 21-31; Psalm 147: 1-12; 1 Corinthians 9: 16-23; Mark 1: 29-39 Have you ever been in a really dark place before the dawn? … Continue reading →

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