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Easter Sunday

4/17/2022

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Alleluia! Christ is risen!
Christ is risen indeed! Alleluia!

What a beautiful day … even if it may rain later this afternoon! Easter celebrates new life and even here in St. Augustine seeing flowers and trees and plants come alive again after winter is one symbol of that new life. But today we celebrate more than flowers and budding trees. Today we celebrate the power of God to bring new life out of death, to give us joy instead of weeping, to empower our lives into wholeness after being broken. It is a joyous Easter Day!

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Good Friday

4/15/2022

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Holy Week and Easter can pose many questions for those who read the Bible from a progressive viewpoint. Did Jesus physically rise in a miraculous resuscitation on the third day after his death? Was the holy temple curtain literally torn in two from top to bottom at the moment Jesus died? Did the whole earth shake, and the rocks split? Were “the Jews” to blame for the death of Jesus as John’s gospel implies? After his death, did the bodies of many dead saints rise up from their tombs and flood Jerusalem appearing to many as Matthew’s gospel proclaims?

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Palm Sunday

4/10/2022

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Palm Sunday. The Blessing of the Palms. The reading of the Passion Gospel. We are at the end of Lent … the beginning of Holy Week.

Next Sunday is Easter, but before Easter are the events of Jesus in Jerusalem. He overturned the tables in the Temple. He drove out the moneychangers with a whip. He incurred the wrath of the Temple elite. He had his last meal … a Passover seder … with his disciples. He was betrayed by one of his own. He was arrested by Temple police. He was presented to the political authorities to be condemned. He was beaten, mocked, and then crucified … hung on a cross to die. Jesus came to Jerusalem to speak truth to power … and the powers killed him.

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5 Lent

4/3/2022

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Our Gospel reading from John begins with the words: “Six days before the Passover … ” It is to remind us that the Jesus story of his Passion, Death, and Resurrection are set in the context of the Passover.

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4 Lent

3/27/2022

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The gospel reading from Luke begins this way:
Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming near to listen to him. And the Pharisees and the scribes were grumbling and saying, "This fellow welcomes sinners and eats with them." So Jesus told them this parable: "There was a man who had two sons.”

This story is all too familiar. We know it as the “Prodigal Son.” But I’m not so sure that this story is so much about the son, as about the father.

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