Year B 2 Kings 2:1-12 Psalm 50:1-6 2 Corinthians 4:3-6 Mark 9:2-9 May the words of my mouth… O God… speak your Truth… Today is the Feast of St. Valentine… yes… Valentine’s Day and Transfiguration Sunday too… and as I sat at my desk a few days ago… writing this sermon… I wondered about...
Year B Isaiah 40:21-31 Psalm 147:1-12, 21c 1 Corinthians 9:16-23 Mark 1:29-39 May the words of my mouth… O God… speak your Truth… Essential workers… who are they… there’s a little bit of blurriness in my timeline… but early in the pandemic… perhaps in March or April… it seemed they were all of the...
Year B Jonah 3:1-5, 10 Psalm 62:6-14 1 Corinthians 7:29-31 Mark 1:14-20 May the words of my mouth… O God… speak your Truth… It was the last straw… it was the straw that broke the camel’s back… I mean… there’s only so much you can stand… so much weight of wrong… you can carry… ...
Year B 1 Samuel 3:1-20 Psalm 139:1-5, 12-17 1 Corinthians 6:12-20 John 1:43-51 May the words of my mouth… O God… speak your Truth… In today’s passage from 1 Samuel… the boy Samuel mistakes God’s voice… for Eli’s voice… mistakes the One divine voice… for one human voice… God calls Samuel three times… and...
Year B Genesis 1:1-5 Psalm 29 Acts 19:1-7 Mark 1:4-11 May the words of my mouth… O God… speak your Truth… In the beginning… the earth was a formless void… and darkness covered the face of the deep… then God said… Let there be light… and there was light… but wait a minute… ...