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June 17, 2007 - Third Sunday After Pentecost (Proper 6) - Year C [RCL] listen
by the Rev. Barry Turner
Shadows can be both fun and frightening. ... Today’s readings are about coming to terms with the frightening side of shadows.
June 10, 2007 - Second Sunday After Pentecost (Proper 5) - Year C [RCL] listen
by the Rev. Dr. Susanna Metz
What wonderful images we have in today’s passages.
June 3, 2007 - Trinity Sunday - Year C [RCL] listen
by the Rev. Dr. Frank Hegedus
There are well over five hundred parishes in the Episcopal Church named after the Trinity, making it, along with Christ Church and Saint John’s, one of the all-time favorite names for our parish communities.
May 27, 2007 - Day of Pentecost - Year C [RCL] listen
by the Rev. Mary H. Ogus
Hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunami waves fascinate us. Their destructive force seems to come out of nowhere to wreak havoc upon man and nature.
May 20, 2007 - Seventh Sunday of Easter - Year C [RCL] listen
by the Rev. Debbie Royals
If you wonder if the Church is relevant today, let me invite you to think about two things: unity as the glory of God, and unity as the hope for a Godly world.
May 13, 2007 - Sixth Sunday of Easter - Year C [RCL] listen
by the Rev. J. Barrington Bates
Today is Rogation Sunday, when the church has traditionally offered prayer for God’s blessing on the fruits of the earth and the labors of humankind.
May 6, 2007 - Fifth Sunday of Easter - Year C [RCL] listen
by the Rev. Ken Kesselus
Can we imagine someone becoming so filled up, so saturated with something, that she or he can’t take in any more? Like a filled-up cup that can only overflow onto others, beginning to fill them?
April 29, 2007 - Fourth Sunday of Easter - Year C [RCL] listen
by the Rev. Susan B. Snook
The Twenty-Third Psalm is one of the most well-known chapters in the Bible. ... Many of us recall Sunday-school posters of this favorite psalm superimposed on beautiful painted pictures of Jesus on a grassy hillside, with a lamb over his shoulders, rescuing it from danger.
April 22, 2007 - Third Sunday of Easter - Year C [RCL] listen
by the Rev. Paul D. Allick
At his baptism, Saul regained his sight and took his new name. Saul the persecutor became Paul the advocate. Voices from heaven change everything.
April 15, 2007 - Second Sunday of Easter - Year C [RCL] listen
by the Rev. Mary K. Morrison
Well, here we are again on Thomas Sunday. Good old doubting Thomas. Thomas could be the patron saint of modern people.
April 8, 2007 - Easter Day - Year C [RCL] listen
by the Rev. Dr. Frank Hegedus
As arcane as the computation is for establishing Easter Day, it is only part of the story. For not only is Easter a special time, it is quite literally special time. It is time out of time, time like no other.

April 7, 2007 - The Great Vigil of Easter - Year C [RCL] listen
by the Rev. Ben E. Helmer
The origins of this great feast are at least from the third century AD. We know that Christians even then, amidst persecution and secrecy, celebrated the mighty acts of salvation history and baptized new converts to the faith.
April 6, 2007 - Good Friday - Year C [RCL] listen
by the Rev. Dr. Susanna Metz
“Woman, here is your son.” Then he said to his disciple, “Here is your mother.”
April 5, 2007 - Maundy Thursday - Year C [RCL] listen
by the Rev. Ken Kesselus
Reading deathbed quotations can provide information and amusement, bewilderment, and boredom. Seldom, though, do famous last words produce meaning and inspiration. Such is not the case with Jesus.
April 1, 2007 - Palm Sunday - Year C [RCL] listen
by the Rev. J. Barrington Bates
Easter is there, beckoning, at the end of this week’s mystical journey. But until then, the church enters into a time of confusion, a place of suffering, and a context of betrayal, fear, and pain.
March 25, 2007 - Fifth Sunday in Lent - Year C [RCL] listen
by the Rev. Dr. J. Barry Vaughn
Quite a few of us grew up in evangelical churches and were raised on a diet of fiery preaching and gospel hymns. One of the most popular hymns of that genre is “What a friend we have in Jesus.” Jesus was rich in friends and found great joy in them.
March 18, 2007 - Fourth Sunday in Lent - Year C [RCL] listen
by the Rev. Kirk Alan Kubicek
In the end, it seems it is about bread. Which is only right, since in the beginning it was also about bread.

March 11, 2007 - Third Sunday in Lent - Year C [RCL] listen
by the Very Rev. Anthony F.M. Clavier
Perhaps in a reaction to a period of history in which it was thought good not to over-praise each other, we’ve spent a generation “affirming” each other. It can be difficult, particularly when we are asked to affirm someone who has just bored us to death with the most awful twaddle. Lent is a difficult time for those of us who are not used to being told we are wrong.
March 4, 2007 - Second Sunday in Lent - Year C [RCL] listen
by the Rev. Charles Hoffacker
Today may we consider how sometimes the best prayer to God is a groan, a lamentation, or the voice of grief.
February 25, 2007 - First Sunday in Lent - Year C [RCL] listen
by the Rev. Ben Helmer
The lessons for the first Sunday in Lent can be viewed as a roadmap for our Lenten journey. They embody the theme of journeying: travel, protection, and longing for a destination.
February 21, 2007 - Ash Wednesday - Year C [RCL] listen
by the Rev. Charles Hoffacker
A man was recalling his grandmother’s recipe collection. Some, he remembered, were in well-used cookbooks, and some were on index cards.
February 18, 2007 - Last Sunday After the Epiphany/World Mission Sunday - Year C [RCL] listen
by Thomas Chu
Today’s readings take us into “close encounters” with God – the kind that don’t seem to happen too often, but when they do, they are the ones that change us.
February 11, 2007 - Sixth Sunday After the Epiphany - Year C [RCL] listen
by the Rev. Ken Kesselus
Consider your condition in life. Are you relatively well off financially? Are you secure, with an abundance of material possessions?
February 4, 2007 - Fifth Sunday After the Epiphany - Year C [RCL] listen
by the Rev. Dr. Susanna Metz
“Woe is me” seems to be an understatement. The prophet is having a vision that’s not only very vivid, but also frightening.
January 28, 2007 - Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany - Year C [RCL] listen
by the Rev. Dr. Frank Hegedus
Most Episcopalians know that when a rector leaves a parish to accept another call or perhaps to retire, the parish itself, with the assistance of the bishop, must find a new rector.
January 21, 2007 - Third Sunday after the Epiphany - Year C [RCL] listen
by Katerina K Whitley
On this the third Sunday after Epiphany we are presented with images of two public readings from the law and the prophets

January 14, 2007 - Second Sunday after the Epiphany - Year C [RCL] listen
by Katerina K Whitley
There is something almost mystical about the beginning of a new year.
January 7, 2007 - First Sunday After the Epiphany / The Baptism of Our Lord Jesus Christ – Year C [RCL] listen
by Katerina K Whitley
What does it mean to be God’s chosen? What does it mean to be God’s Beloved

January 6, 2007 - The Epiphany - Year C [RCL] listen
by Katerina K Whitley
In this season of Epiphany we enter the realm of light.
December 31, 2006 - First Sunday after Christmas Day / New Year's Eve - Year C [RCL] listen
by the Rev. Melford Bud Holland
Our life is filled with endings and beginnings. Today is the last day of the calendar year. Yet we know in the church calendar that we began a new year on December 3rd, Advent Sunday.
December 25, 2006 - Christmas Day - Year C [RCL] listen
by the Very Rev. Anthony F.M. Clavier
We are all used to party political agendas. We’ve just survived an election season and although there’s two years to go before the next general election, the television networks daily parade possible candidates before us and we hear their plans to transform America.
December 24, 2006 - Fourth Sunday of Advent - Year C [RCL] listen
by the Rev. Charles Hoffacker
This morning may we reflect with open hearts on the words we just heard from the song of triumph.
December 17, 2006 - Third Sunday of Advent - Year C [RCL] listen
by the Rev. Debbie Royals
When was the last time that you were filled with so much anticipation that you actually thought you might burst before the anticipated event arrived?

December 10, 2006 - Second Sunday of Advent - Year C [RCL] listen
by the Rev. Dr. Frank Hegedus
Imagine for a moment a world and society in which our worth and wages were not determined by our work but rather by an entirely different standard.

December 3, 2006 - First Sunday of Advent - Year C [RCL] listen
by the Rev. Ben Helmer
Advent, this season on which we embark today, these few short weeks of repentance, preparation, and expectation, begins with a picture of the end of the world.
 

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