Readings for Good Shepherd Sunday (the Fourth Sunday of Easter) Year C Acts 9:36-43 Revelation 7:9-17 John 10:22-30 Psalm 23 This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church in Eureka CA on Easter Sunday May 12, 2019.  Happy Mother’s Day! And Happy Good Shepherd Sunday! I’m very pleased to be back from a sojourn in Scotland on […]

Readings for Easter Sunday (Year C) Isaiah 65:17-25 Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24 Acts 10:34-43 Luke 24:1-12 This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church in Eureka CA on Easter Sunday April 21, 2019. A version of this sermon was published as a commentary at Modern Metanoia, a lectionary-based Gospel commentary.  A Sunday School teacher had just finished telling […]

This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church in Eureka CA at the Easter Vigil Service on April 20, 2019. “This is the night when God brought our fathers, the children of Israel, out of bondage in Egypt, and led them through the Red Sea on dry land. This is the night, when all who believe in […]

Readings for Holy Saturday Job 14:1-14 Psalm 31:1-4, 15-16 John 19:38-42 This reflection was shared at Sacred Saunter Outdoor Eucharist on Holy Saturday April 20, 2019 at Sequoia Park in Eureka.  Today is Holy Saturday, the second day of the Paschal Triduum, the day in which Jesus lies dead in the tomb. Yesterday we observed […]

Readings for the Feast Day of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Isaiah 55:6–11 Psalm 65 Revelation 21:1–6 John 3:31–35 This reflection was shared at Sacred Saunter Outdoor Eucharist on Saturday April 13, 2019 at Sequoia Park in Eureka.    The Collect for Teilhard de Chardin Eternal God, the whole cosmos sings of your glory, from the […]

Readings for the Fifth Sunday in Lent (Year C) Isaiah 43:16-21 Psalm 126 Philippians 3:4b-14 John 12:1-8 This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church in Eureka CA on April 7, 2019. A couple weeks ago, I participated in a Clergy Quiet Day at the Mercy Center in Auburn CA, led by the Rev. Megan Anderson, who […]

Readings for the Fourth Sunday in Lent (Laetare Sunday – Year C) Joshua 5:9-12 Psalm 32 2 Corinthians 5:16-21 Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32 This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church in Eureka CA on March 31, 2019. In 1970, a young graduate student at Carnegie Mellon University named John-Michael visited an Episcopal cathedral in Pittsburgh two weeks […]

Readings for Saturday in the Third Week of Lent Hosea 6:1-16 Psalm 51:15-20 Luke 18:9-14 This reflection was shared at Sacred Saunter Outdoor Eucharist on Saturday March 30, 2019 at Sequoia Park in Eureka.  Collect of the Day O God, you know us to be set in the midst of so many and great dangers, that […]

Readings for the Second Sunday in Lent Genesis 15:1-12,17-18 Philippians 3:17-4:1 Luke 13:31-35 Psalm 27 This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church in Eureka CA on March 17, 2019. This Lenten season has been extra special for me because Ash Wednesday fell on my birthday and because the feast of St. Patrick falls on a Sunday, […]

Readings for the Feast Day of St. Patrick Ezekiel 36:33–38 Matthew 28:16–20 Psalm 97:1–2,7–12 This reflection was shared at Sacred Saunter Outdoor Eucharist on Saturday March 16, 2019 at Sequoia Park in Eureka.  Today, our Scripture readings are the readings for the feast day of Ireland’s most beloved saint, Patrick, who actually was not Irish, […]