Sermons on Easter/Pascua de Resurrección (Page 3)
Go And Bear Fruit: Easter 6
Easter 6: May 9, 2021 Year B: Acts 10:44-48; Psalm 98; 1 John 5:1-6; John 15:9-17 CLICK HERE to view the video recording of this Morning Prayer service and sermon on Facebook. Available service bulletins. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Today is Mother’s Day. It is a day where we are encouraged to obey at least half of the Fifth Commandment, “Honor thy father and mother.” There are mothers, grandmothers, great-grandmothers, even great-great-grandmothers, stepmothers, godmothers, mothers-in-law, aunts, big sisters, mentors, role models, and all…
Transformed by Grace: Easter 5
Easter 5: May 2, 2021 Year B: Acts 8:26-40; Psalm 22:24-30; 1 John 4:7-21; John 15:1-8 CLICK HERE to view the video recording of this Spiritual Communion service and sermon on Facebook. Available service bulletins. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ This image that we hear of God, as “God’s vineyard”, is a very old one, going back to the Jewish psalms, as well as other places in the Old Testament. Listen to part of Psalm 80: “You brought a vine out of Egypt; you…
What Is Our Legacy? Easter 3
Easter 3: April 18, 2021 Year B: Acts 3:12-19; Psalm 4; 1 John 3:1-7; Luke 24:36b-48 CLICK HERE to view the video recording of this service and sermon on Facebook. Available service bulletins. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Some of us who are just a little older might ask ourselves “What legacy do you want to leave behind?” Sometimes that question is related to money. Sometimes it’s about the “imprint” so to speak that we leave on the life of people and institutions that…
You Will Be My Witnesses: Easter 7
Seventh Sunday of Easter: May 24, 2020 Year A, Easter 7: Psalm 68:1-10, 33-36; Acts 1:6-14; 1 Peter 4:12-14; 5:6-11; John 17:1-11; CLICK HERE to view the video on YouTube. CLICK HERE to download the written sermon or read below: +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Homilist: The Rt. Rev. Jennifer Brooke Davidson, the Assistant Bishop of the Diocese of Virginia It’s the end of the long season of Eastertide. This is the Seventh Sunday in Easter: seven Sundays to make a perfect week of…
The Greatest Legacy of All: Love – Easter 6
Sixth Sunday of Easter: May 17, 2020 Year A, Easter 6: Psalm 66:7-18, 15-16; Acts 17:22-31, 1 Peter 3:13-22, John 14:15-21 CLICK HERE to view the video recording on Facebook. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ We’re in the season that we would normally have lots of celebration. Normally, we’d be attending a lot off graduation parties, even weddings. I went to a college and a seminary where there were a lot of traditions, especially when you attend a seminary that is now more than…
Our Spiritual House Stands Firm: Easter 5
The fifth sunday of Easter: May 10, 2020 Year A: Psalm 31:1-5, 15-16, Acts 7:55-60, 1 Peter 2:2-10, John 14:1-14 CLICK HERE to view the video recording on Facebook. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ It all feels so up in the air. I suspect you are asking yourself, as I have been, when have so many people, everywhere, felt so uncertain, had so many unanswered and unanswerable questions all at the same time? When have so many plans been upended, suspended? When have so…
We Have Everything We Need: Easter 4
Good Shepherd Sunday: May 3, 2020 Year A, The Fourth Sunday of Easter: Psalm 23, Acts 2:42-47, 1 Peter 2:19-25, John 10:1-10 Children’s Sermon Featuring: The Rt. Rev. Susan E. Goff, Bishop Suffragan and Ecclesiastical Authority, and her dear friend, Grannie MacEwe All Ages Sermon Homilist: The RT. Rev. Susan Goff, Bishop of Virginia CLICK HERE for a pdf of the sermon text or read below: Psalm 23 and John 10:1-10 “I have come that they may have life, and…
Glimmer of God: Easter 3
The Third Sunday of Easter: April 26, 2020 Year A: Psalm 116:1-3, 10-17, Acts 2:14a,36-41, Peter 1:17-23, Luke 24:13-35 CLICK HERE to view the video on YouTube. CLICK HERE to download the written sermon or read below: +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Homilist: The Rev. Dr. Mary Brennan Thorpe, Canon to the Ordinary My cellphone rang the other day. It was a number that I didn’t recognize, but my RoboCaller app didn’t flag it, so I answered. A woman’s voice, with a strong Alabama…
God Is With Us: Easter 2
The Second Sunday of Easter: April 19, 2020 Year A: Psalm 16, Acts 2:14a, 22-32, 1 Peter 1:3-9, John 20:19-31 CLICK HERE to view the video on YouTube. CLICK HERE to download the written sermon or read below: John 20:19-31 When it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and the doors of the house where the disciples had met were locked for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace…
It’s Easter Anyway: Easter Day
Easter DAy: April 12, 2020 Easter Day, Year A: Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24, Acts 10:34-43 or Jeremiah 31:1-6, Colossians 3:1-4 or Acts 10:34-43, John 20:1-18 or Matthew 28:1-10 CLICK HERE to view the video on YouTube. CLICK HERE to read the written sermon in English and in Spanish or read in English below: +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Homilist: The Most Rev. Michael Curry, Presiding Bishop and Primate of the Episcopal Church (United States) This sermon was pre-recorded for inclusion in the live stream of the Cathedral’s April…
Follow Where The Holy Spirit Beckons: Easter 6
Sixth Sunday of Easter: May 26, 2019 Year C, Acts 16:9-15; Psalm67; Revelation 21:10, 22-22:5; John 14:23-29 There is no recording available for this sermon. Please read the text below. On Friday, I attended an event that I will attend only once in my lifetime, I am sure: a graduation at the United States Naval Academy. A flyover by the Blue Angels that the program said would be at 10:04 and at exactly 10:04 according to the Jumbotron clock that…
The Way Of Love: Easter 5
Fifth Sunday of Easter: May 19, 2019 Year C, Acts 11:1-18; Psalm148; Revelation 21:1-6; John 13:31-35 This sermon was preached by lay leaders at Emmanuel Episcopal Church and Saint Andrew’s Episcopal Church on Sunday, May 19, 2019 “I give you a new commandment, that you love one another.” With these eleven words, Jesus turns the world order upside-down—in first-century Palestine and here, today. “I give you a new commandment, that you love one another.” Jesus tells us that everyone will…