Tag: Easter
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The multivalent Lamb of God
A sermon for the Fourth Sunday of Easter, Year C: Acts 9:36-43; Psalm 23; Revelation 7:9-17; John 10:22-30 ** In January of 2011, I spent two weeks in Rome on a study trip, pondering the paradoxes of the Eternal City. My most fond and vivid and absurd memory of the trip took place on January 21 just…
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Find your ‘Mary moment’
A sermon for Easter Sunday, Year C: Acts 10:34-43; Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24; 1 Corinthians 15:19-26; John 20:1-18 ** I had some friends in and after college who went to work on political campaigns full-time. It took them weeks to recover from the post-election funk when their candidates lost. And who can blame them? They put so much…
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We have been this way before: An Easter Vigil homily
Great Vigil of Easter We have been this way before. Once again, Jesus gathered us together in community. Once again, we left our betrayals and our brokenness at the foot of the cross. Once again, we were there when they laid him in the tomb. Once again, he proved to us that the powers of…