Tag Archives: resurrection
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 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 …
April 26, 2020, What Happens in Emmaus Doesn’t Stay in Emmaus, Luke 24:13-35 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000192 This is not my Sunday to be homilist in the combined services we are holding online during this time of quarantine, but I wanted to share my thoughts about the wonderful gospel passage we read on this Third Sunday of the Easter season. Last week we heard …
March 29, 2020, Buds and Sprouts and Abundant Life, John 11:1-44
To listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000184 The Lord be with you. The Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, according to John. Glory to you, Lord Christ. Now a certain man was ill, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. Mary was the one who anointed the Lord with perfume …
May 19, 2019, What If the Whole World Has Cancer? – guest speaker Carroll Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000136 Most of you know that Mother Kathryn is back in St. Louis because her sister, Margaret, was entering the last stages of cancer. Yesterday morning at about 8:20 our time she died, but thanks to many of you, Kathryn was there with her those last few days. …
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, …
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