May is a pretty quiet month. The liturgical calendar is pretty empty. Except for the commemoration of St. Philip and St. James. And the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh Sundays of Easter. And Ascension Day. And Pentecost. And that’s just The Lectionary Page’s Episcopal calendar. The Lutheran calendar on Sundays and Seasons adds the...
Year A Acts 2:14a,36-41 Psalm 116:1-3, 10-17 1 Peter 1:17-23 Luke 24:13-35 Cleopas and his companion… some think perhaps his wife… because of not being named… were leaving Jerusalem on the first Easter… headed towards Emmaus… which some think may have been the site of a Roman garrison… built around a pool of water…...
Year A Acts 2:14a,22-32 Psalm 16 1 Peter 1:3-9 John 20:19-31 God told Noah that it was going to rain for forty days and forty nights… that is… for a long time… and Noah and his family… and all of those animals… were in the ark in God-imposed physical distancing… and they were separated...
Year A Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24 Acts 10:34-43 Matthew 28:1-10 Easter Sunday During the forty days of Lent… we did not sing or say Alleluia… our joy was replaced by waiting… during the forty days of Lent… we reflected on our brokenness… and we bore the ashes of… and remembered our mortality… during the forty...
My God… my God… why have you forsaken me… these words were spoken by Jesus… but there are people who said these words last month… and this month… this week… and this day… maybe even as I’m saying them now… people who never thought… could never have imagined… that a pandemic would touch their...