Tag Archives: Easter
April 27, 2025, From Thomas to Thomas, John 20:19-31 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
Doubting Thomas and I have been old traveling companions ever since I was ordained to the priesthood. I was ordained at Trinity Church in Potsdam on December 21st 2010 – some of you were even there for that service. That was the Feast of Saint Thomas, and three days later I celebrated my first Mass …
April 20, 2025, Easter Sunday, John 20:1-18 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click the link above. The text is below. My impressions of Easter Sunday go way back to when I was a little girl. Easter morning began the moment I opened my eyes and found my Easter basket on the foot of my bed. Stuffed bunnies and jelly beans, crinkly cellophane …
April 14, 2023, Was It a Ghost? Luke 24:36-49 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
Above is a link to the recording of the sermon. The text is below. I think we have all felt worn out, at one time or another, from hearing nothing but bad news, whether it’s on TV or online or in the papers. Sometimes the news media try to make people feel better by including …
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 …
April 1, 2018, Easter Sunday, Choose Your Own Adventure – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000075 When my kids were probably middle-school age, they discovered a series of books called “Choose your own adventure” books. They were written on a very, very low literary level, and every story was pretty much the same as every other story, as far as I could tell, …
April 16, 2017, Easter, The Weight of Heaven – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000019 There is a ridiculous, but sometimes very funny, BBC show from Scotland called Limmy’s world. And there is one short skit that begins with the narrator, Limmy, asking a question, “I have a question for you: which is heavier, a kilogramme of steel, or a kilogramme of …
March 31, 2013, Easter – When You Go Out, You Will Meet Him
To listen to this sermon, click here: When You Go Out, You Will Meet Him I love the truthfulness of God’s word. If a person had written the story of the empty tomb it would have been much more full of faith and awe, and much less full of confusion and unbelief. The made-for-TV movie …
March 30, 2013 Easter Vigil – Becoming Part of the Big Story
To listen to this sermon click here: Becoming Part of the Big Story We have a big storage closet in our new house, and about a third of it is full of boxes and boxes and boxes of photographs – some boxes full of photo albums, and other boxes full of envelopes and shoeboxes and …
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