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Holy Saturday
The Detroit Zoo hosted an Easter festivity today. It wasn’t Easter, of course, but Holy Saturday. I went along anyway. The boy loves birds and wouldn’t stop chasing the peacocks. Then we visited the polar bear exhibit, which was really cool. We went under the water and got a close up of a seal! On…
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Watch the Stations of the Cross
Whether you have a deep attachment to the stations of the cross or don’t even know what they are, check these out. Frank Logue, Canon to the Ordinary of the Diocese of Georgia has put together a visual stations of the cross. Click the link and head over!
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Learning to Love
a Sermon for Maundy Thursday Text: John 13:1-17, 31b-35 Memory Making. Before breaking bread with His disciples for the final time, Jesus washed their feet. Then he told them to wash one another’s feet. Many of us focus this night on the dinner they share—particularly the breaking of bread at the beinning and the sharing…
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A Holy Wednesday: The Day of Anointing
According to the gospel we call Mark, today is the day Jesus is anointed by a woman. To us, she has no name. After Sunday’s dramatic rebuke of Rome, Monday’s trashing of the money-changers and dove-sellers, and Tuesday’s teaching at the Temple in which he humiliates and condemns the Temple leadership, Wednesday is a true…
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Jesus’s Last Teaching
a Sermon for Maundy Thursday Text: John 13:1-17, 31b-35 There are many interesting parts of the story we tell of Maundy Thursday, but much of it we actually save for tomorrow, Good Friday. Our tradition focuses on two important acts: The Passover Meal The Footwashing The Passover. We heard in our Hebrew reading from Exodus…
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The Palm Gospel as Unpredictable Danger
a Sermon for Passion Sunday Text: Mark 11:1-11 & Mark 14:1-15:47 must we choose? We’re challenged with two gospels today. They are a natural juxtaposition. One is happy and the other is sad. One declares victory, the other demonstrates earthly defeat. We processed in joyously and we’re likely to walk out depressed. My natural inclination…
