Monthly Archives: April, 2023
April 30, 2023, A Little More Light on the Good Shepherd, John 10:1-18 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click the link above. An outline of the sermon is given below It’s Good Shepherd Sunday, and strangely, we find ourselves without our Good Shepherd window – the beautiful image that is such a comforting presence every time we come in. Today, all we have is the unfamiliar light of …
April 23, 2023, Faith and Hospitality, Luke 24:13-35 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click the link above. An outline of the sermon is given below. Easter was two weeks ago, but here in the Lectionary we are still living through that first Easter morning. Our Easter was lovely, a “day of joy and gladness” like the hymn says. We filled the sanctuary and …
April 16, 2023, Wounded Healer, John 20:24-31 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click the link above. The outline for the sermon is given below. The first thing that always strikes me in this story is how Jesus reacts to Thomas’s doubt – a lot to be said about that. But today I want to look at this story from a different angle: …
April 9, 2023, Sermon for Easter Sunday – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
/Click the link above to listen to the sermon. Below is an outline of the sermon. The Golden Halo – St. Augustine, J.S. Bach, John Donne – playful but also a great way of learning more about the great men and women in our But the winner – Jonathan Myrick Daniels – an Episcopal seminarian …
Homily for Holy Saturday 2023
An outline for the homily of Holy Saturday Last night we found our places at the foot of the cross. But tonight we wait with Jesus inside the tomb. It is absolutely dark. There is no sound. It is a silent night of a very different kind. For the powers and principalities of this world, …
Homily for Good Friday April 7 2023
Here on this day we call Good Friday, we find the characters of the story set in their places, like the actors in a play, frozen in the middle of a scene, or like pieces on a chessboard in the middle of a game. At the center is our Lord on the cross. To his …
Homily for Maundy Thursday April 6 2023
Jesus and his disciples were Jews, and so they gathered on this night as they did every year, as they had done since they were little children, to eat the Passover Seder. With all Jews everywhere, they gathered to remember their long years of oppression and slavery in Egypt. They told the story of how …
April 2, 2023 -The Passion for Palm Sunday – the gospel according to St. Matthew – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
Narrator The Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ according to Matthew One of the twelve, who was called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests and said, Judas What will you give me if I betray Jesus to you? Narrator The priests paid him thirty pieces of silver. And from that moment Judas began to …
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