Tag Archives: love

Maundy Thursday message

Posted on April 6, 2023 by Rosalind C Hughes

This, for me, was the tragedy of Judas: that he couldn’t see how much God loved him, even when God was right in front of him, washing his feet. Continue reading →

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God’s gift

Posted on December 18, 2022 by Rosalind C Hughes

We do not get to choose whether or not God loves us. Whether we feel worthy or wormy, God loves us, and we cannot make it otherwise. Continue reading →

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The wolf and the lamb

Posted on December 16, 2022 by Rosalind C Hughes

To speak of love is to render it tame; so the word became flesh and took again the fiercer features of life; took flight from the angels, hid instead within the brutish warmth of mother-milk and frailty; the love whose name we dare to speak for fear else of devouring one … Continue reading →

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Power and piety

Posted on September 4, 2022 by Rosalind C Hughes

When we come to a crossroads, and the gospel calls us to walk one way, and the world tells us that way leads to ruin, or rejection, Jesus wants us to have the courage to follow him, even in the way of the cross. Continue reading →

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Here is love

Posted on April 3, 2022 by Rosalind C Hughes

Here is love that doesn’t bury grief, but anoints it, attends to it. Here is love that doesn’t count the cost, but pours itself out so that it is felt, sensed, perceived far beyond the feet that receive it: “the house was filled with the fragrance of it.” Here is love that inspires others to love. Continue reading →

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Because love is the miracle

Posted on December 11, 2021 by Rosalind C Hughes

Love is what it takes
to make the other
miracles true… Continue reading →

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Love, knowledge, authority, and unclean spirits

Posted on January 31, 2021 by Rosalind C Hughes

The unclean spirits knew Jesus, and they named him. Jesus knew the man, and he loved him. Continue reading →

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Valentine

Posted on February 14, 2020 by Rosalind C Hughes

Happy valentine’s day; no matter your circumstance today, you are beloved, more than words can say. In the meantime, my valentine said I could share this with you: The undertow sucks sand from underfoot, but I stand firm. Wild horses … Continue reading →

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Maundy Thursday: the end of love

Posted on April 18, 2019 by Rosalind C Hughes

Love is a decision. It is our choice to make, and we cannot make the excuse that someone else destroyed it, if Jesus washed Judas’ feet, and healed the ear of the servant sent to arrest him, and restrained the angels from coming down from heaven to frighten the hell out of Herod and that weasel, Pontius Pilate, letting love be his gospel, and his end. Continue reading →

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Love all the way down

Posted on February 3, 2019 by Rosalind C Hughes

A sermon for the fourth Sunday after the Epiphany in Year C, the annual meeting of Epiphany parish, Euclid, and the Solemn Sung Eucharist at Trinity Cathedral, Cleveland. The main text for this sermon is Paul’s ode to love in 1 Corinthians 13. Continue reading →

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