As you can see with the way our church has been so nicely decorated, we enter this Sunday into the time of Advent, those four weeks leading up to Christmas, and it’s also the beginning of our liturgical year. This is also the time when we move to another Gospel, and this year we are…
Month: November 2024
Last Sunday after Pentecost, Feast of Christ the King (B) – Revelation 1: 4b-8; John 18: 33-37
Today we celebrate the feast of Christ the King, and you may have had an inkling of that as we sang our opening hymn! Crown him Lord of all, this is indeed a powerful and joyful statement to affirm that Christ is our King. The passage of Revelation we have just heard goes even a…
Proper 28(B) – Mark 13: 1-8
Protect me, O God, for I take refuge in you (Psalm 16:1) If you remember from two weeks ago, when we celebrated All Saints’, we noticed that although the Book of Revelation is the most famous apocalypse of the Bible, there are other apocalypses in the Bible. Indeed apocalypse does not mean “the end of…
Proper 27(B) – Ruth 3:1-5; 4: 13-17; Hebrews 9: 24-28; Mark 12: 38-44
To the CBS channel’s credit, they try on occasions to bring good news to their viewers. This past week, between reports on the latest polls and a lot of advertisements, I was able to watch a re-run of their show “Kindness 101” with Steve Hartman. If you don’t know the show, well, each time, Hartman…
All Saints (B) – Revelation 21:1-6a; John 11: 32-44
Today we celebrate the festival of All Saints and All Souls, and of course it’s the Feast Day of our church because of the name it has been given. What’s important to realize is that All Saints / All Souls is not only about our church, rather it’s about the Church in general, the assembly…