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Amados hermanos y hermanas; nos concede el Señor la inmensa gracia de participar en esta celebración de la Pascua. Dispongamos nuestro corazón y nuestra mente para experimentar con gozo la presencia de Jesús resucitado en nuestra vida y pidámosle a él la fuerza y la sabiduría necesarias para saber cómo llevar a la práctica cotidiana…
El silencio y la solemnidad son las notas características del Viernes Santo, las cuales dan realce a este gran misterio que nos sobrecoge al contemplar en la cruz a quien dedicó su vida a enseñar cómo vivir el amor, la fraternidad, la justicia y el servicio al más necesitado. Las comunidades cristianas primitivas muy pronto…
Con el debido recogimiento y disposición de espíritu para interiorizar el valor que tiene la celebración de este día, dispongámonos a vivir con fe y alegría este encuentro de hoy: encuentro con nuestros hermanos y hermanas, con nuestros pastores y guías y, en fin, con Jesús, su palabra, sus gestos y acciones. La primera lectura…
What words can one utter after the reading of this gospel? The most dramatic events in all creation are recounted by Mark in his customary simplicity and minimal use of words, but both the telling and the hearing break the heart. We ask: How can people be so cruel? How could the disciples have been…
[Note to the reader: This sermon is intended as a meditation to be read after the Passion Gospel. It should be read with pauses for reflection where indicated.] For some this is just another Friday. Fifty years ago in much of the country banks were closed from noon to three o’clock; and many businesses also…
As is often the case, what is not included in our lessons may be of utmost importance in our hearing what is going on in these lessons. For instance, in Acts a lame man has been healed, and Peter and John have been hauled before some sort of ecclesiastical court to explain why the lame…
Welcome to the circus! Yes, that’s what I said: welcome to the circus. Tonight this place of worship becomes the big top, the circus, the greatest show on earth. For consider: What makes a circus? According to theologian and attorney William Stringfellow, the circus is a parable of God’s purpose, because in it “human beings…
Today is Maundy Thursday, the last Thursday of our annual Lenten observance. The word “Maundy” does not have any meaning in and of itself. It is one of those exotic Episcopal or Anglican terms we sooner or later all become familiar with in our church. Scholars are not even sure of the word’s origin, though…
Martin Luther once said, “That upon which you set your heart and put your trust is properly your god.” Luther was talking about what it means to have a god. He says, “A god means that from which we expect all good and to which we are to take refuge in all distress, so that…
Mary Magdalene is lost in the grief following her rabbi, Jesus’, death. Then there is the shock of finding the tomb empty. She runs to get Peter and the Beloved Disciple, who see the tomb and return home. Mary remains. She is weeping inconsolably when angels ask her, “Woman, why are you weeping?” In her…
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