Year C Malachi 3:1-4 Canticle 16 (Luke 1:68-79) Philippians 1:3-11 Luke 3:1-6 May the words of my mouth O God… speak your truth… When Dwight D. Eisenhower was President of the United States… and John Patterson the governor of Alabama… when J. Edgar Hoover served as the omnipotent autocrat of the FBI… and Billy Graham and Norman Vincent...
Year C Jeremiah 33:14-16 Psalm 25:1-9 1 Thessalonians 3:9-13 Luke 21:25-36 May the words of my mouth O God… speak your truth… If I had to guess, I’d say that most of you have seen the movie Forrest Gump… or Saving Private Ryan… or Slumdog Millionaire… or perhaps even Annie Hall… or Gandhi… or one of those other...
Year C Daniel 7:9-10, 13-14 Psalm 93 Revelation 1:4b-8 John 18:33-37 May the words of my mouth O God… speak your truth… The Gospel is hard… the Gospel is difficult… the Gospel is so totally at odds with our American experience that fitting it into our lives may feel like forcing a square peg...
Year C Daniel 12:1-3 Psalm 16 Hebrews 10:11-14, 19-25 Mark 13:1-8 May the words of my mouth O God… speak your truth… “Grandmother, what big eyes you have!”“The better to see you with, my dear.”“And Grandmother, what big teeth you have!”“All the better to eat you up with.”And the wolf ate Little Red Riding Hood… We just heard...
Year B Wisdom 3:1-9 Psalm 146 Revelation 21:1-6a John 11:32-44 May the words of my mouth O God… speak your truth… I only recently became aware of something called a “mash-up”… but apparently they’ve been around for a long time… friends of ours invited Joel and me over to see a movie that only someone with a vivid...