Dec 8, 2023 | Advent Blog 2023
Home > Advent Blog 2023 Hope and Grace December 8, 2023 Isaiah 64:1-9 | Psalm 80:1-7, 16-18 | 1 Corinthians 1:3-9 | Mark 13:24-37My first reading of today’s selected scripture left me feeling a bit unsettled. I’m just not comfortable with all the anger and...
Dec 7, 2023 | Advent Blog 2023
Home > Advent Blog 2023 Having Faith December 7, 2023 1Kings 21:17-29 | Psalm 27:5-11 | Luke 12:35-46After reading and re-reading the passages and psalm a couple things came to mind. One of the things is that being a person of any faith comes with a price. That...
Dec 6, 2023 | Advent Blog 2023
Home > Advent Blog 2023 Receive the Kingdom of God!December 6, 2023 1 John 4:7-14 | Psalm 145:8-13 | Mark 10:13-16I’ve been thinking a lot about little children these days. Not just because it’s the holiday season, in which we see all kinds of ads with and for...
Dec 5, 2023 | Advent Blog 2023
Home > Advent Blog 2023 Seeking PeaceDecember 5, 2023 Psalm 34:9-14 | Colossians 1:11-20 | John 6:57-63Some days it is difficult to reconcile the scripture readings with what is happening in the world around us. Having lived through many tumultuous times you...
Dec 4, 2023 | Advent Blog 2023
Home > Advent Blog 2023 Oh, Happy Day! December 4, 2023 1 Corinthians 15:12-20 | Psalm 118:14-21 | John 5:24-27‘Confirm our minds, O Lord, in the mysteries of the true faith … that we, with him, confessing Jesus to be true God and true Man and singing the...
Dec 3, 2023 | Advent Blog 2023
Home > Advent Blog 2023 Do we need God? December 3, 2023 Isaiah 64:1-9 | Psalm 80:1-7 1 | Corinthians 1: 3-9 | Mark 13:24-37It’s here! Again! The most wonderful time of the year! Again! Advent! A beginning! A time of anticipation! A time of preparation! A...
Apr 9, 2023 | Lenten Blog 2023
Home > Lenten Blog 2023 Easter Sunday 4.17.22 Please enjoy this recording from last year’s Easter Sunday Service.We welcome you to join us for Sunday services at 7:45AM or 10:15AM throughout the Easter...
Apr 8, 2023 | Lenten Blog 2023
Home > Lenten Blog 2023 “Don’t you get me wrong. I only want to know.”* April 8, 2023 (Click above photo to enlarge) Job 14:1-14 or Lamentations 3:1-9, 19-24 | Psalm 31:1-4, 15-16 | 1 Peter 4:1-8 | Matthew 27:57-66 or John 19:38-42 Growing up a child of the...
Apr 7, 2023 | Lenten Blog 2023
Home > Lenten Blog 2023 Good Friday Taizé Service 4.15.22 Please enjoy this recording from last year’s Good Friday Taizé Service.We welcome you to join us for tonight’s Taizé Service starting at...
Apr 6, 2023 | Lenten Blog 2023
Home > Lenten Blog 2023 “Do this in remembrance of me”April 6, 2023 Exodus 12:1-4, (5-10), 11-14 | Psalm 116:1, 10-17 | 1 Corinthians 11:23-26 | John 13:1-17, 31b-35Maundy Thursday is for me one of the most profound moments in the Christian calendar. It is,...
Apr 5, 2023 | Lenten Blog 2023
Home > Lenten Blog 2023 Have faith in God to be there for us. April 5, 2023 Isaiah 50:4-9a | Psalm 70 | Hebrews 12:1-3 | John 13:21-32John’s Gospel for the Wednesday in Holy Week speaks of Jesus being troubled in spirit. He knows that one of his...
Apr 4, 2023 | Lenten Blog 2023
Home > Lenten Blog 2023 “I will give you as a light to the nations, that my salvation may reach to the end of the earth.”April 4, 2023 Isaiah 49:1-7 | Psalm 71:1-14 | 1 Corinthians 1:18-31 | John 12:20-36What a responsibility! Throughout our time on earth,...
Apr 3, 2023 | Lenten Blog 2023
Home > Lenten Blog 2023 Bring Forth Justice to the Nations April 3, 2023 Isaiah 42:1-9 | Psalm 36:5-11 | Hebrews 9:11-15 | John 12:1-11Isaiah tells us today about someone it’s taken me a while to get to know: God’s chosen servant “in whom [His/Her] soul...
Apr 2, 2023 | Lenten Blog 2023
Home > Lenten Blog 2023 Beloved is Where We BeginApril 2, 2023 Isaiah 50:4-9a | Psalm 31:9-16 | Philippians 2:5-11 | Matthew 26:14- 27:66 or Matthew 27:11-54Lent is a time to examine and reflect, in the light of Christ’s values and our lives; anchoring our...
Apr 1, 2023 | Lenten Blog 2023
Home > Lenten Blog 2023 We all are to be gather together loving God and one another. April 1, 2023 Ezekiel 37:21–28 | Psalm 85:1–7 | John 11:45–53When I finally agreed to participate in this blog, I worried about what reading I would be assigned. For me,...
Mar 31, 2023 | Lenten Blog 2023
Home > Lenten Blog 2023 I Will Call Upon the Lord March 31, 2023 Jeremiah 20:7–13 | Psalm 18:1–7 | John 10:31–42As I read through these scriptures, my first reaction was “Circle the wagons, we’re surrounded”. When I finished laughing at myself I remembered a...
Mar 30, 2023 | Lenten Blog 2023
Home > Lenten Blog 2023 Abraham March 30, 2023 Genesis 17:1–8 | Psalm 105:4–11 | John 8:51–59Today’s readings from Genesis, Psalm 105, and John have a common focus: Abraham. Abraham is the patriarch of the Jewish people who Yahweh chose for a special...
Mar 29, 2023 | Lenten Blog 2023
Home > Lenten Blog 2023 FaithfulnessMarch 29, 2023 Daniel 3:14–20,24–28 | Canticle [2] or 13 | John 8:31–42In the Old Testament reading, Shadrach, Mesach, and Abednego were challenged by King Nebuchnezzar who insisted they deny their faith and fall down and...
Mar 28, 2023 | Lenten Blog 2023
Home > Lenten Blog 2023 Grant that they may be built as living stones into a spiritual temple acceptable to you. March 28, 2023 Numbers 21:4–9 | John 8:21–30 | Psalm 102:15–22 Look with compassion upon those who are being prepared for Holy Baptism, and grant...
Mar 27, 2023 | Lenten Blog 2023
Home > Lenten Blog 2023 Goodness and Mercy shall follow usMarch 27, 2023 Susanna [1–9,15–29,34–40],41-62 | Psalm 23 | John 8:1–11 or John 8:12–20Today’s readings contain one of the most well known passages in Scripture, at least to my ears: Psalm 23. While I...
Mar 26, 2023 | Lenten Blog 2023
Home > Lenten Blog 2023 Now he knows. March 26, 2023 Ezekiel 37:1-14 | Psalm 130 | Romans 8:6-11 | John 11:1-45One of my early memories is of learning that a neighbor had died. I had passed the age of magical thinking, and I knew that we would no longer see...
Mar 25, 2023 | Lenten Blog 2023
Home > Lenten Blog 2023 Be grateful to God every dayMarch 25, 2023 The Annunciation stain glass window in Taize. Photographer Kevin LloydIsaiah 7:10-14 | Psalm 45 or Psalm 40:5-10 or Canticle 15 (or 3) | Hebrews 10:4-10 | Luke 1:26-38We need to pour God’s...
Mar 24, 2023 | Lenten Blog 2023
Home > Lenten Blog 2023 More beautiful every time the LORD shines his light through it.March 24, 2023 Wisdom 2:1a,12–24 | Psalm 34:15–22 | John 7:1–2,10,25–30 Psalm 34:18 The LORD is near to the broken-hearted, and saves the...
Mar 23, 2023 | Lenten Blog 2023
Home > Lenten Blog 2023 “And God said unto Moses… Well, aren’t your people a fickle lot”March 23, 2023 Exodus 32:7–14 | Psalm 106:6–7,19–23 | John 5:30–47In the readings for this week of lent I found myself reaching to the same conclusion… we are a mess, and...
Mar 22, 2023 | Lenten Blog 2023
Home > Lenten Blog 2023 ContextMarch 22, 2023 Isaiah 49:8–15 | Psalm 145:8–19 | John 5:19–29The 274 words of the Gospel reading from John (5:19-29) really covers a huge amount of material and a lot of the basic fundamentals of Christianity. There is so much...
Mar 21, 2023 | Lenten Blog 2023
Home > Lenten Blog 2023 Fresh Water March 21, 2023 Dead SeaEzekiel 47:1–9,12 | Psalm 46:1–8 | John 5:1–18Definitions: Cubit = an ancient measure of length, approximately equal to the length of a forearm. It was typically about 18 inchesArabah = desert or...
Mar 20, 2023 | Lenten Blog 2023
Home > Lenten Blog 2023 Lift your voices in song and sing praises to our Lord and God! March 20, 2023 2 Samuel 7:4,8-16 | Psalm 89:1-29 or 89:1-4, 26-29 | Romans 4:13-18 | Luke 2:41-52Your love, O LORD, for ever will I sing; from age to age my mouth will...
Mar 19, 2023 | Lenten Blog 2023
Home > Lenten Blog 2023 The Lord is My Shepherd March 19, 2023 1 Samuel 16:1-13 | Psalm 23 | Ephesians 5:8-14 | John 9:1-41Lent is a time when our focus tends to be on repentance, fasting, self-denial and meditation. Combining that with the current events...
Mar 18, 2023 | Lenten Blog 2023
Home > Lenten Blog 2023 Perfection, Humility and the Pharisee Within March 18, 2023 Dispute between Jesus and the Pharisees – Gustave DoréHosea 6:1–6 | Psalm 51:15–20 | Luke 18:9–14In the parable of the Pharisee and Tax Collector, Jesus rebukes the grandiose,...
Mar 17, 2023 | Lenten Blog 2023
Home > Lenten Blog 2023 Loving With a Whole HeartMarch 17, 2023 Hosea 14:1–9 | Psalm 81:8–14 | Mark 12:28–34I can’t quite believe I was assigned this reading. It is so very foundational to our faith. It’s what I’ve heard in my head – and in church – my whole...
Mar 16, 2023 | Lenten Blog 2023
Home > Lenten Blog 2023 Keeping Watch March 16, 2023 Jeremiah 7:23–28 | Psalm 95:6–11 | Luke 11:14–23Collect for today:Keep watch over your Church, O Lord, with your unfailing love; and, since it is grounded in human weakness and cannot maintain itself without...
Mar 15, 2023 | Lenten Blog 2023
Home > Lenten Blog 2023 Keeping the Commandments of the Lord March 15, 2023 Deuteronomy 4:1–2,5–9 | Psalm 78:1–6 | Matthew 5:17–19Moses said “You must neither add anything to what I command you nor take away anything from it, but keep the commandments of...
Mar 14, 2023 | Lenten Blog 2023
Home > Lenten Blog 2023 Forgive from our heart. March 14, 2023 Song of the Three Young Men 2–4,11–20a | Psalm 25:3–10 | Matthew 18:21–35The Gospel today, Matthew 18:21-35, is well-known, i.e.,Peter: How many times should I forgive another who sins against...
Mar 13, 2023 | Lenten Blog 2023
Home > Lenten Blog 2023 What were you expecting? March 13, 2023 2 Kings 5:1–15b | Psalm 42:1–7 | Luke 4:23–30The lessons assigned for today have me thinking about expectations, and how we react when things don’t go exactly as we had hoped.In the Hebrew...
Mar 12, 2023 | Lenten Blog 2023
Home > Lenten Blog 2023 I’m really thirsty, would you please give me a drink?March 12, 2023 Exodus 17:1-7 | Psalm 95 | Romans 5:1-11 | John 4:5-42 Reading Scripture has been an exciting and interesting exploration for me ever since I was a little girl and...
Mar 11, 2023 | Lenten Blog 2023
Home > Lenten Blog 2023 The Real Emotional Reflections of The Prodigal SonMarch 11, 2023 Micah 7:14–15,18–20 | Psalm 103:1–4(5–8)9–12 | Luke 15:11–32I would wager that many of us with siblings have felt a sense of discomfort when absorbing the story of the...
Mar 10, 2023 | Lenten Blog 2023
Home > Lenten Blog 2023 What is your cornerstone? March 10, 2023 Genesis 37:3–4,12–28 | Psalm 105:16–22 | Matthew 21:33–43“The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone”– Matthew 21:42Cornerstones are a most important building element. We see...
Mar 9, 2023 | Lenten Blog 2023
Home > Lenten Blog 2023 “A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away….” March 9, 2023 Jeremiah 17:5–10 | Psalm 1 | Luke 16:19–31Today’s readings provide us stories of good versus evil. I dare say such battles, whether external or internal, are in our DNA....
Mar 8, 2023 | Lenten Blog 2023
Home > Lenten Blog 2023 The Lord is always there for us.March 8, 2023 Jeremiah 18:1–11,18–20 | Psalm 31:9–16 | Matthew 20:17–28Psalm 319 Be merciful to me, Lord, for I am in distress;my eyes grow weak with sorrow,my soul and body with grief.10 My life is...
Mar 7, 2023 | Lenten Blog 2023
Home > Lenten Blog 2023 We need to roll up our sleeves and do the work. March 7, 2023 Isaiah 1:2–4,16–20 | Psalm 50:7–15,22–24 | Matthew 23:1–12As a person who identified as “agnostic” in my early twenties, part of my rejection of religion came from my...
Mar 6, 2023 | Lenten Blog 2023
Home > Lenten Blog 2023 Make room for love March 6, 2023 Daniel 9:3–10 | Psalm 79:1–9 | Luke 6:27–38In Luke 6:27-38, Jesus gives us one of the hardest and seemingly contradictory directives in all of scripture: Love your enemies. This is not one of those...
Mar 5, 2023 | Lenten Blog 2023
Home > Lenten Blog 2023 “Blessed Assurance” March 5, 2023 Genesis 12:1-4a | Psalm 121 | Romans 4:1-5, 13-17 | John 3:1-17The appointed lessons, Psalm and Gospel readings for this Second Sunday in Lent are laden with profound promises, possibilities and...
Mar 4, 2023 | Lenten Blog 2023
Home > Lenten Blog 2023 For this I say “Hallelujah”.March 4, 2023 Deuteronomy 26:16–19 | Psalm 119:1–8 | Matthew 5:43–48 The verses in Deuteronomy and the preceding chapters contain numerous laws and statutes that God gave to the Israelites to be obeyed when...
Mar 3, 2023 | Lenten Blog 2023
Home > Lenten Blog 2023 “The way of the Lord is unfair…” March 3, 2023 Ezekiel 18:21–28 | Psalm 130 | Matthew 5:20–26Ezekiel 18:19 Yet you say, “The way of the Lord is unfair” Hear now, O house of Israel, Is my way unfair? Is it not your ways that are...
Mar 2, 2023 | Lenten Blog 2023
Home > Lenten Blog 2023 Ask… And Give Thanks March 2, 2023 Esther (Apocrypha) 14:1–6,12–14 | Psalm 138 | Matthew 7:7–12Queen Esther was an Israelite woman living in Persia, married to King Xerxes. Orphaned as a child, she was raised by her uncle,...
Mar 1, 2023 | Lenten Blog 2023
Home > Lenten Blog 2023 All is Well…even when it is not.March 1, 2023 Jonah 3:1–10 | Psalm 51:11–18 | Luke 11:29–32 Luke 11:29And when the people were gathered thick together, he began to say, This is an evil generation: they seek a sign; and there shall no...
Feb 28, 2023 | Lenten Blog 2023
Home > Lenten Blog 2023 Teaching Me A Lot About Love February 28, 2023 Isaiah 55:6–11 | Psalm 34:15–22 | Matthew 6:7–15Sheep: I’ve long not been fond of biblical references to those feeble-minded and easily-led-astray animals. The Good Shepherd’s sheep, I’m...
Feb 27, 2023 | Lenten Blog 2023
Home > Lenten Blog 2023 May these words help us and guide us as we move through this wilderness season.February 27, 2023 Leviticus 19:1–2,11–18 | Matthew 25:31–46 | Psalm 19:7–14Today’s readings invite us to examine two expressions of the second Great...
Feb 26, 2023 | Lenten Blog 2023
Home > Lenten Blog 2023 Who is responsible?February 26, 2023 Genesis 2:15-17; 3:1-7 | Psalm 32 | Matthew 4:1-11 | Romans 5:12-19When I read the Genesis story of the Garden of Eden for today’s blog, I groaned. The profoundly destructive influence this story...
Feb 25, 2023 | Lenten Blog 2023
Home > Lenten Blog 2023 Living in the Light February 25, 2023 Isaiah 58:9b-14 | Psalm 86:1-11 | Luke 5:27-32Two things came into my focus as I read these readings. The first being the Isaiah passage: “The Lord will guide you continually and satisfy your needs...
Feb 24, 2023 | Lenten Blog 2023
Home > Lenten Blog 2023 What’s next?! For the Apostles? For the Church? For us? February 24, 2023 Acts 1:15-26 | Psalm 15 | Philippians 3:13-21 | John 15:1,6-16These scriptures look ahead to how Jesus wants us to behave as God’s people. They also...
Feb 23, 2023 | Lenten Blog 2023
Home > Lenten Blog 2023 Beatus vir qui non abiit February 23, 2023 Deuteronomy 30:15-20 | Psalm 1 | Luke 9:18-25Reading and comprehending scripture is usually a challenge for me, I often find myself confused and overwhelmed. I find it difficult to understand...
Feb 22, 2023 | Lenten Blog 2023
Home > Lenten Blog 2023 “Remember you are dust, and to dust you shall return.” February 22, 2023 Joel 2:1-2, 12-17 | Isaiah 58:1-12 | Psalm 103 | 2 Corinthians 5:20b-6:10 | Matthew 6:1-6,16-21 In my sleep a few nights ago, I saw & heard these...
Dec 25, 2022 | Advent Blog 2022
Home > Advent Blog 2022 Promise! December 24, 2022 Isaiah 52: 7-10 | Psalm 98 | Hebrews 1:1-4 | John 1:1-14 It is December 25! We made it! You know the story that we are celebrating on this very day. Maybe you spent time with the passage from Matthew which mentions...
Dec 24, 2022 | Advent Blog 2022
Home > Advent Blog 2022 Promise!December 24, 2022 Isaiah 35:1-10 | Revelation 22:12-17,21 | Luke 1:67-80So . . . it is finally Christmas Eve! It is full of promise of Who is to come. We read and remember that God has promised to lead His people, to protect them. ...
Dec 23, 2022 | Advent Blog 2022
Home > Advent Blog 2022 Being the Light and Love of ChristDecember 23, 2022 Isaiah 33:17-22 | Revelation 22:6-11 | Luke 1:57-66Last Saturday morning St. Luke’s was bustling with activity. Folks were in the food pantry organizing the offerings there, the choir was...
Dec 22, 2022 | Advent Blog 2022
Home > Advent Blog 2022 My Soul Magnifies the LordDecember 22, 2022 Isaiah 29:13-24 | Revelation 21:22-22:5 | Luke 1:39-56 Not being a Biblical scholar, I’m on shaky ground when I claim that nowhere else in the Good Book has an angel of the Lord spoken directly to...
Dec 21, 2022 | Advent Blog 2022
Home > Advent Blog 2022 Life’s CornerstonesDecember 21, 2022 Isaiah 28:9-22 | Revelation 21:9-21 | Luke 1:26-38 Therefore thus says the Lord God, See, I am laying in Zion a foundation stone, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation: ‘One who trusts...
Dec 20, 2022 | Advent Blog 2022
Home > Advent Blog 2022 Serve in moving God’s purpose forward.December 20, 2022 Isaiah 11:10-16 | Revelation 20:11-21:8 | Luke 1:5-25When Zechariah entered the Lord’s sanctuary to burn incense, he was at a hinge of history and did not know it. Everything was going...
Dec 19, 2022 | Advent Blog 2022
Home > Advent Blog 2022 Each stump becomes an altar of transformation. December 19, 2022 Isaiah 11:1-9 | Revelation 20:1-10 | John 5:30-47During the bleak days of Covid, my husband coped by realizing a new purpose in life. Our home on a river, was visible only...
Dec 18, 2022 | Advent Blog 2022
Home > Advent Blog 2022 Emmanuel – God is with us. December 18, 2022 Isaiah 7:10-16 | Romans 1:1-7 | Matthew 1:18-25That’s really all we need to know. It’s so elemental that it strips away everything else. We first hear about “Immanuel” in the Old Testament...
Dec 17, 2022 | Advent Blog 2022
Home > Advent Blog 2022 So, what do you do to inspire people to follow God?December 17, 2022 Isaiah 10:20-27 | Jude 17-25 | Luke 3:1-9 Some may say that they don’t know how to help other people. But I think that everyone can help others find themselves and God.In...
Dec 16, 2022 | Advent Blog 2022
Home > Advent Blog 2022 Glass half empty? December 16, 2022 Emma Walsh, one of 15 St. Luke’s Episcopal Church young adult missioners, building a church on the grounds of Campamento Monte De La Transfiguracion, Jarabacoa, República Dominicana, February, 2006.Isaiah...
Dec 15, 2022 | Advent Blog 2022
Home > Advent Blog 2022 Take Jesus‘ hand this Advent December 15, 2022 IsaIah 9:18-10:4 | 2 Peter 2:10b-16 | Matthew 3:1-12For all this, his anger has not turned away; His hand is stretched out still.The Isaiah passage could have been written yesterday, so apt are...
Dec 14, 2022 | Advent Blog 2022
Home > Advent Blog 2022 “It does not matter how small…”December 14, 2022 Isaiah 9:8-17 | 2 Peter 2:1-10a | Mark 1:1-8 Yikes, what readings today, false prophets, cities falling, thankfully followed by John’s message of hope. I am about to invite your company...
Dec 13, 2022 | Advent Blog 2022
Home > Advent Blog 2022 ”I Believe.“December 13, 2022 Today’s New Testament lesson shares the story of Jesus being mocked and beaten by the authorities. They are trying to trick him & get him to admit what they want to hear.But one of Jesus’...
Dec 12, 2022 | Advent Blog 2022
Home > Advent Blog 2022 I Will Hope in Him December 12, 2022 Isaiah 8:16-9:1; 2 Peter 1:1-11; Luke 22:39-53 And I will wait on the Lord, Who hides His face from the house of Jacob; And I will hope in Him. – Isaiah 8:17 I don’t really think God hides His face from...
Dec 11, 2022 | Advent Blog 2022
Home > Advent Blog 2022 Be patient…really? How much longer?December 11, 2022 Isaiah 35:1-10 | James 5:7-10 | Matthew 11:2-11Over the years, I’ve grown to love Advent and its call to us for anticipatory waiting, though it hasn’t always been that way. “Getting things...
Dec 10, 2022 | Advent Blog 2022
Home > Advent Blog 2022 Where do you find peace? December 10, 2022 Isaiah 8:1-15 | 2 Thessalonians 3:16-18| Luke 22:31-38 Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times in all ways. The Lord be with all of you. The season sometimes is referred to as...
Dec 9, 2022 | Advent Blog 2022
Home > Advent Blog 2022 Experience first-hand St. Luke’s loving community. December 9, 2022 Isaiah 7:10-25 | 2 Thessalonians 2:13-3:5 | Luke 22:14-30 To celebrate my 82nd birthday (today, Dec. 9th) – and just when I was getting kind of complacent about my dear...
Dec 8, 2022 | Advent Blog 2022
Home > Advent Blog 2022 Ponder the mystery of Christ in new waysDecember 8, 2022 Isaiah 7:1-9 2 Thessalonians 2:1-12 Luke 22:1-13 Even after all these years in the Episcopal church, I find it jarring to be reading about Jesus’ last week of life right before...
Dec 7, 2022 | Advent Blog 2022
Home > Advent Blog 2022 Judgement December 7, 2022 Isaiah 6:1-13 | 2 Thessalonians 1:1-12 | John 7:53-8:11Judgement – it seems to surround us these days! We watch behaviors in isolation and make judgements. We hear the news and make judgements. We make decisions,...
Dec 6, 2022 | Advent Blog 2022
Home > Advent Blog 2022 Day By DayDecember 6, 2022 Isaiah 5:13-15, 24-25 | 1 Thessalonians 5:12-28 | Luke 21:29-38One of my favorite things to do, is to have a “planning session” with my Gary. We have them often, like daily…and they usually involve a cup of...
Dec 5, 2022 | Advent Blog 2022
Home > Advent Blog 2022 Kept me in the light.December 5, 2022 Isaiah 5:8-12, 18-23 | 1 Thessalonians 5:1-11 | Luke 21:20-28My thoughts will be on 1 Thessalonians 5:5,8-11.’5for you are all children of light and children of the day; we are not of the night or...
Dec 4, 2022 | Advent Blog 2022
Home > Advent Blog 2022 God’s Own Seeds December 4, 2022 Isaiah 11:1-10 | Romans 15:4-13 | Matthew 3:1-12“Righteousness ” or “righteously” occurs six times in today’s readings and is referenced throughout the texts. The concept grabbed my attention and allowed me...
Dec 3, 2022 | Advent Blog 2022
Home > Advent Blog 2022 The Gift of Hope December 3, 2022 Isaiah 4:2-6 | 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 | Luke 21:5-19[The Coming of the Lord]But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers and sisters, about those who have died, so that you may not grieve as others do...
Dec 2, 2022 | Advent Blog 2022
Home > Advent Blog 2022 Seen By God December 2, 2022 Isaiah 3:8-15 | 1 Thessalonians 4:1-12 | Luke 20:41-21:4 The story of the widow’s mite is about giving all that you have even when you have little to give. It is also about the idea that Jesus sees what humankind...
Dec 1, 2022 | Advent Blog 2022
Home > Advent Blog 2022 He who calls you is to be trusted. December 1, 2022 Isaiah 2:12-22 | 1 Thessalonians 3:1-13 | Luke 20:27-40 I was assigned 1 Thessalonians chapter 3, but this is a short epistle so I read the entire letter and found treasures in chapter 5. ...
Nov 30, 2022 | Advent Blog 2022
Home > Advent Blog 2022 “Thy Kingdom Come” November 30, 2022 Washington National Cathedral – Photo by Lawrence OP http://lawrenceop.tumblr.comIsaiah 2:1-11 | 1 Thessalonians 2:13-20 | Luke 20:19-26they shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their...
Nov 29, 2022 | Advent Blog 2022
Home > Advent Blog 2022 God Calling November 29, 2022 Isaiah 1:21-31 | 1 Thessalonians 2:1-12 | Luke 20:9-18 Advent is a season of Hope, Peace, Light, and Love. And yet today’s readings are full of bad behavior, deceit, ill-treatment of others, and a general...
Nov 28, 2022 | Advent Blog 2022
Home > Advent Blog 2022 By what authority are you doing these things? November 28, 2022 Isaiah 1:10-20 | 1 Thessalonians 1:1-10 | Luke 20:1-8 As we venture into Advent, the season of the church year where we prepare ourselves for the coming of Jesus into the world...
Nov 27, 2022 | Advent Blog 2022
Home > Advent Blog 2022 “Making Ready” November 27, 2022 Isaiah 2:1-5; Romans 13:11-14; Matthew 24:36-44I love trees… From the tallest, most majestic to the tiny saplings struggling to grow.This time of year the color has mostly faded from the leaves that dressed...
Apr 17, 2022 | Lenten Blog 2022
Home > Lenten Blog 2022 Mary Magdalene and Easter at St Luke’s, Balm for my Soul April 17, 2022 Isaiah 65:17-25 | 1 Corinthians 15:19-26 | Acts 10:34-43 | John 20:1-18 or Luke 24:1-12 | Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24Eight years ago, when my husband and I decided to move to...
Apr 16, 2022 | Lenten Blog 2022
Home > Lenten Blog 2022 A test of faith indeed!April 16, 2022 Genesis 1:1-2:4a [The Story of Creation] | Genesis 7:1-5, 11-18, 8:6-18, 9:8-13 [The Flood] | Genesis 22:1-18 [Abraham’s sacrifice of Isaac] | Exodus 14:10-31; 15:20-21 [Israel’s deliverance...
Apr 15, 2022 | Lenten Blog 2022
Home > Lenten Blog 2022 My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? April 15, 2022 Isaiah 52:13-53:12 | Hebrews 10:16-25 or Hebrews 4:14-16; 5:7-9 | John 18:1-19:42 | Psalm 22My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?Psalm 22:1These words of anguish and...
Apr 14, 2022 | Lenten Blog 2022
Home > Lenten Blog 2022 Unless I wash you, you have no share with me. April 14, 2022 Click photo to enlarge Exodus 12:1-4, (5-10), 11-14 | 1 Corinthians 11:23-26 | John 13:1-17, 31b-35 | Psalm 116:1, 10-17It has been many years since I first set foot...
Apr 14, 2022 | Lenten Blog 2022
Home > Lenten Blog 2022 If we can love with this sense of humility, openness, and tenderness, what a world we might help to create!April 14, 2022 Exodus 12:1-4, (5-10), 11-14 | 1 Corinthians 11:23-26 | John 13:1-17, 31b-35 | Psalm 116:1, 10-17Wow, what a rich...
Apr 13, 2022 | Lenten Blog 2022
Home > Lenten Blog 2022 “Consider him who endured such hostility against himself from sinners, so that you may not grow weary or lose heart.” April 13, 2022 Isaiah 50:4-9a | Hebrews 12:1-3 | John 13:21-32 | Psalm 70These scripture readings were a bit of a struggle...
Apr 12, 2022 | Lenten Blog 2022
Home > Lenten Blog 2022 He can be my castle and stronghold. April 12, 2022 Isaiah 49:1-7 | 1 Corinthians 1:18-31 | John 12:20-36 | Psalm 71:1-14For a variety of reasons, I’ve been thinking a lot about shame recently. One reason is that Tim and I had the...
Apr 11, 2022 | Lenten Blog 2022
Home > Lenten Blog 2022 Courage to Choose LoveApril 11, 2022 Isaiah 42:1-9 | Hebrews 9:11-15 | John 12:1-11 | Psalm 36:5-11 In today’s Gospel from John, we are invited to sit at the dinner table of Lazarus. Two of the prominent individuals at the dinner are Mary...
Apr 10, 2022 | Lenten Blog 2022
Home > Lenten Blog 2022 Will You Walk with Jesus? April 10, 2022 The Liturgy of the PalmsLuke 19:28-40 | Psalm 118:1-2, 19-29The Liturgy of the WordIsaiah 50:4-9a | Philippians 2:5-11 | Luke 22:14-23:56 or Luke 23:1-49 | Psalm 31:9-16Sunday of the Passion – Palm...
Apr 9, 2022 | Lenten Blog 2022
Home > Lenten Blog 2022 Mary? Mary Who? Which Mary? April 9, 2022 Ezekiel 37:21–28 | John 11:45–53 | Psalm 85:1–7 In my Irish Catholic family, I can count at least six immediate Aunt Marys: my Mom’s sister Aunt Mary Sommer, my Dad’s sister Aunt Mary Gumper, two of...
Apr 8, 2022 | Lenten Blog 2022
Home > Lenten Blog 2022 I Called upon the LORD in my distressApril 8, 2022 Jeremiah 20:7–13 | John 10:31–42 | Psalm 18:1–7Psalm 18:6-76 I called upon the Lord in my distress *and cried out to my God for help.7 He heard my voice from his heavenly dwelling; *my cry...
Apr 7, 2022 | Lenten Blog 2022
Home > Lenten Blog 2022 Rocking Our Souls April 7, 2022 Genesis 17:1–8 | John 8:51–59 | Psalm 105:4–11Rock-a my soul in the bosom of Abraham,Rock-a my soul in the bosom of Abraham,Rock-a my soul in the bosom of Abraham,Oh, rock-a my soul!As memories are wont to...
Apr 6, 2022 | Lenten Blog 2022
Home > Lenten Blog 2022 “Let Him deliver us”April 6, 2022 Daniel 3:14–20,24–28 | John 8:31–42 | Canticle 13 These readings, at first glance, seem a little all over the place. They aren’t – but I’ll get to that in a minute. First, I have to say that the story of...
Apr 5, 2022 | Lenten Blog 2022
Home > Lenten Blog 2022 Praise the Lord anyway. April 5, 2022 Numbers 21:4–9 | John 8:21–30 | Psalm 102:15–22“Let this be written for a future generationSo that a people yet unborn may praise the Lord”Sometime around the 9th – 5th century before Christ was even...
Apr 4, 2022 | Lenten Blog 2022
Home > Lenten Blog 2022 “I shall fear no evil; for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.”April 4, 2022 Susanna [1–9,15–29,34–40],41-62 | John 8:1–11 or John 8:12–20 | Psalm 23The lessons from Susanna and John 8:1–11 are similar but provide...
Apr 3, 2022 | Lenten Blog 2022
Home > Lenten Blog 2022 Once upon a time they lived happily ever after.April 3, 2022 Isaiah 43:16-21 | Philippians 3:4b-14 | John 12:1-8 | Psalm 126When I was an elementary counselor working in classrooms, I used puppets to tell and illustrate stories. At the...
Apr 2, 2022 | Lenten Blog 2022
Home > Lenten Blog 2022 Living Water April 2, 2022 Jeremiah 11:18–20 | John 7:37–52| Psalm 7:6–11In John Chapter 7, Jesus cries out to the crowds at a festival, “Let anyone who is thirsty come to me, and let the one who believes me drink. As the scripture has said,...
Apr 1, 2022 | Lenten Blog 2022
Home > Lenten Blog 2022 My heart is with the Ukrainian people.April 1, 2022 Wisdom 2:1a,12–24 | John 7:1–2,10,25–30 | Psalm 34:15–22I pondered today’s readings while digesting the latest news from Ukraine. I thought particularly of footage showing parents kissing...
