Author Archive: saintphilipsnorwood
April 24, 2016, Love Like You’ve Been Loved – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: 120901_001 Imagine that there is a big family, and the parents, the mother and father, are preparing to go away on a long trip. And they’re about to give the children the instructions they need to keep things running. Well, every other time these parents had gone away …
April 17, 2016, Sheep in the Valley – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: 120825_001 The reading from John today is about a confrontation. It happened in December, or at least the Jewish month that corresponds to December, when Jesus was at the Temple in Jerusalem, during the Feast of the Dedication,which today is called Hannukah. Most of the religious festivals we …
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April 10, 2016, Do You Love Me More Than These? – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: 120818_001 Sometimes, at the end of a particularly hectic and confusing day, I feel like one of those snow globes that have a little scene inside a glass dome, where you shake them up and watch the flakes swirl around and around until they finally settle down. When …
April 3, 2016, The Faith of Doubting Thomas – guest speaker Carroll Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: 120811_001 John 20:24-29 says, “Now Thomas, one of the Twelve, called the Twin, was not with them when Jesus came. So the other disciples told him, ‘We have seen the Lord.’ But he said to them, ‘Unless I see in his hands the mark of the nails, and …
March 27, 2016, Easter Sunday – Breaking the Cycle – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: 120804_002 The first witness to the resurrected Christ was Mary Magdalene. On the day after the crucifixion, Mary and all the other disciples had stayed at home the whole of that terrible Sabbath day. They must have been overwhelmed with grief, and I imagine them talking together about …
March 26, 2016 – Homily for the Great Vigil of Easter – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
We’ve come a long way together this week. Thursday night we gathered together around the table with our Lord, and we heard his parting instructions to us. “I’m going away,” he said, “and I’m leaving you in charge. And here’s what you need to do. Love one another, just like I have loved you, just …
March 25, 2016 – Meditation for Good Friday – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
A meditation on the seven last words of Christ from the cross. The first word: “Forgive them, Father! They don’t know what they are doing.” We have been reading the story of Christ’s Passion week after week during Lent. It is a hard story, a story full of cruelty and betrayal and suffering – as …
March 26, 2016 – Meditation for Holy Saturday Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
(A meditation based on Matthew 27:57-66) When evening fell on that last, worst day the stage was set; the final act about to begin. Most of the players had left the darkened stage and headed home: the restless crowds dispersed, the victors cautiously jubilant, the dispirited followers cloaked in sorrow and fear and weariness. The …
March 24, 2016, A Homily for Maundy Thursday – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
No recording is available for this sermon. Maundy Thursday, the celebration of the New Commandment, is all about love. The gospel passage begins by telling us how much Jesus loved his friends. “Having loved his own who were in the world,” John says, “he loved them to the end.” And it ends with the Command …
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