Year B Exodus 12:1-4, 11-14 Psalm 116:1, 10-17 1 Corinthians 11:23-26 John 13:1-17, 31b-35 May the words of my mouth O God… speak your truth… This evening’s reading about the Last Supper takes a different approach than the synoptic Gospels do… while the synoptics focus on Jesus’ establishment of the Eucharist… tonight’s passage focuses on Jesus washing the...
In place of a sermon on Palm Sunday, we had a dramatic reading of the Passion story based on the Gospel of Mark. You can find the video of the service on our Facebook page at: https://www.facebook.com/hcealc/videos/744578871150609
Year B Jeremiah 31:31-34 Psalm 119:9-16 Hebrews 5:5-10 John 12:20-33 May the words of my mouth O God… speak your truth… Jeremiah lived during one of the most critical periods in the history of the Jewish people… the destruction of Jerusalem and Solomon’s Temple… followed immediately by the Babylonian exile… he witnessed the last years of the kingdom...
Year B Numbers 21:4-9 Psalm 107:1-3, 17-22 Ephesians 2:1-10 John 3:14-21 May the words of my mouth O God… speak your truth… So we’ve got this curious little passage from Numbers… that after some more time in the wilderness… the people became impatient… and complained… and spoke against God and Moses… again… negating their release from slavery… and...
Year B Exodus 20:1-17 Psalm 19 1 Corinthians 1:18-25 John 2:13-22 May the words of my mouth O God… speak your truth… We need to remember that our oldest sacred texts… did not arise in a vacuum… there were already other creation stories in the ancient Near East… the Babylonian Enuma Elish … which was discovered in 1849...