Holy Week

Good Friday

Year B Isaiah 52:13-53:12 Psalm 22 Hebrews 10:16-25 John 19:1-37 May the words of my mouth O God…   speak your truth… Today is about the loss of hope…  after years of preaching…  teaching…  healings…  miracles…  and revelation…  after promises of the Kingdom…  Peter’s denial shows that he fears guilt by association… No… not me… I don’t know that...

Maundy Thursday

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...

Before We Know It

Easter will soon be upon us. We have about another week to think about the ways we can continue to turn our few good deeds into mountains of them, and turn our many sins into just some small pebbles. This is challenging work. It’s challenging for us to own up to our faults when...

Becoming Real

Maundy Thursday – Year C 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… Most parents treat their children like children…  the children may try to act like grown-ups in little bodies…  but they’re not…  and we teach them by example…  we set limits…...