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“We hear them telling in our own tongues the mighty works of God.” Acts 2:11 Most of us who have been the members of the Episcopal Church here in the United States have grown up in a church which was English speaking, a church which largely worshipped in Elizabethan English. The culture shock of transition…
On behalf of the whole Congregation of God’s People in this place it is my privilege and joy as your Pastor to welcome today to St. Benedict’s Episcopal Church each and everyone of you who were confirmed and received yesterday at St. Mark’s. As you know we have been praying for you throughout Lent and…
Where did he go, the broken body, the strapping thirty year-old, where did he go, my love, the crucified, the friend who ate with us at dawn by the lake? Peer into the clouds, scan the stratosphere; you must find him and bring him back, we cannot live without this glorious body. For in him…
Jesus imagery in the gospel this morning speaks to us of the rooted context of the maturing Christian life. We are called to abide in God, trusting that the Vine will supply the needs to the branches, that one comes from the other, that we are connected. It is only in abiding, the peaceful, calm…
Sometime last year I stood in my living room, watching a neighbor of mine cut his lawn. It was a typically hot and sunny Saturday afternoon. My attention was drawn to him because I wondered why he wasn’t inside watching the baseball game of the week. But there he was, outside, pushing the gas-powered mower…
It is unlikely that Jesus ever worked for gainful employment as a shepherd. Tradition (not scripture) tells us that he learned his father’s trade and worked as a carpenter. He is called “rabbi” or “teacher” in some of the gospel stories which may or may not indicate a field of employment. Although we may not…
The gospel reading for the third Sunday of Easter is the story of Jesus encounter with two of his disciples on the road to Emmaus. In the text the two disciples are walking down the Emmaus road after the crucifixion. As far as the disciples were concerned Jesus was dead and had left them alone…
The incident in John’s gospel today is not the first one where Thomas goes and puts his foot in his mouth. Earlier, as Jesus was preparing for his arrest and death, he told the disciples, “You know the way to the place where I am going.” Thomas leapt in, saying, “Lord, we do not know…
The poet Maya Angelou, in her poem “Just like Job,” writes confidently of the strength an individual can draw upon in the face of adversity: My God,When my blanket was nothing but dew,Rags and bonesWere all I owned.I chanted Your nameJust like Job. Job, shrouded in the rags of repentance, assaulted by every brand of…
Now when the even was come, he sat down with the twelve. And as they did eat, he said, “Verily I say unto you, that one of you shall betray me.” And they were exceeding sorrowful, and began every one to say unto him, “Lord, is it I?” Matthew 26. The event we come to…
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