Readings: Acts 8: 5-8, 14-17; 1 Peter 3: 15-18; John 14: 15-21Click here to download a PDF of this homily.Preacher: Margot VanEtten What a time we are living in! I daresay I echo most of us when I think to myself that this Eastertide feels like a prolonged Holy Saturday. Christ is indeed risen, but our joy is shadowed because… read more →

Readings: Acts 6:1-17; 1 Peter 2:4-9 and or John 14: 1-12Click here to download a PDF of this homily.Preacher: Christine Nowak Kvam It seems like a safe bet to say that those of us who read the reflections posted here are “Church nerds.” So many of us are probably familiar with the little ache that develops in our hearts on… read more →

Readings: Acts of the Apostles 6: 1-7; 1 Peter 2: 4-9; John 14: 1-12Click here to download a PDF of this homily.Preacher: Sr. Barbara Moore Throughout John’s Gospel we find Jesus trying to explain who he is and what he values. This weekend, he shares a very expansive description of himself. “The way, the truth and the life” are general… read more →

Readings: Acts 2:14a, 36b-41; 1 Peter 2:20b-25; John 10:1-10Click here to download a PDF of this homily. Preacher: Deirdre McKiernan Hetzler “I came that they might have life, and have it more abundantly.” That line jumped out at me as I reflected on today’s readings. Abundant life. Isn’t that what we all long for? Especially in the midst of this… read more →

Readings: Acts 2: 14, 22-33; 1 Peter 1: 17-21; Luke 24: 13-35Click here to download a PDF of this homily. Preacher: Deni Mack Cleopas and his partner are unaware Jesus is walking with them. Years ago in New York City as I clutched our children’s hands and pushed the stroller, a man asked me for money. As I hurried the… read more →

Readings: Acts 2:42-47; 1Peter 1:3-9; John 20: 19-31 Click here to download a PDF of this homily Preacher: Marlene Bessette I think Thomas gets a bum rap. He’s one of the twelve, known by most of us only as the skeptic; a doubting Thomas who needs to put his fingers into Jesus’ wounds in order to believe he had risen… read more →

The Resurrection is the central truth of our faith. Paul tells us that if it did not happen, “We are the greatest of fools”. But this great feast also reminds us that in our daily lives we experience it on a smaller scale. We experience life, death and resurrection events as does nature all around us. Today, and for the… read more →

Readings: Acts 10: 34A, 37-43; Colossians 3: 1-4; John 20: 1-9Click here to download a PDF of this homily.Click here to watch a video of this homily. Preacher: Cathy Kamp As Easter approaches during these strange and perplexing times, I am meditating with a favorite icon of Mary Magdalene and our Risen Lord, a compelling depiction of John 20: 11-18.… read more →

Readings: Isaiah 50: 4-7; Philippians 2: 6-11; Matthew 26: 14—27: 66Click here to download a PDF of this homily. Preacher: Sr. Susan Schantz Palm Sunday is a crowd event. It’s a liturgy of the crowd. And each year the Church calls to us: Join the crowd. Together we imagine Jewish believers, women, men and children, streaming into Jerusalem, the holy… read more →

Readings: Ezekiel 37: 12-14; Romans 8: 8-11; John 11: 1-45Click here to download a PDF of this homily. Preacher: Susan K. Roll It must be the case that something deep in our collective human psyche is terrified of the specter of dead human corpses inexplicably coming to life, pulling themselves out of their graves all ragged, ratty and half-decayed, with… read more →