Author Archive: saintphilipsnorwood
April 7, 2024, What Mission Statement?, Matthew 11:28-30 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to the sermon, click the link above. The text is below. The second Sunday after Easter is traditionally Thomas Sunday; we read the story of Doubting Thomas, who wouldn’t believe that Jesus had risen until he experienced it for himself, until he saw and touched the physical body of Christ. And it wasn’t …
March 30 – Homily for Holy Saturday
It’s hard to know what to say tonight, or what to think. Nothing much seems to be happening. Tonight the stone blocks the mouth of the tomb. And just to make sure it stays that way, the religious authorities that be have set a guard to prevent any funny business on the part of Jesus’s …
March 31, 2024, Easter Sunday, Joy and a Little Chaos in the Morning – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click the link above. The text is below. If you read over the accounts of the Passion and Resurrection in all four gospels, you would notice a great many things, but there is one thing might jump out at you. When it comes to Easter morning, they don’t read anything …
March 30, 2024, Behind the Scenes, John 19:38-42 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
No recording of this sermon is available. It’s hard to know what to say tonight, or what to think. Nothing much seems to be happening. Tonight the stone blocks the mouth of the tomb. And just to make sure it stays that way, the religious authorities that be have set a guard to prevent any …
March 29, 2024, John 18:1-19:42, Why We Do What We Do – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
No recording is available for this sermon. Of all the seasons of the Church year, Holy Week is probably the most deeply moving, as well as the most emotionally draining for us. All through Lent we’ve been walking through the Passion of our Lord every Friday, in preparation for this week. We have felt the …
March 28, 2024, Learn by Example on Maundy Thursday, John 13:1-20 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
The recording is above and the text is below. Tonight we gather to do what Jesus and his twelve disciples were doing on the night of his arrest: we gather to share a meal. They were in Jerusalem on the first day of the Passover, and they had made preparations to eat the Passover Seder, …
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