2025

November 30: The First Sunday of Advent

The end is the beginning.That’s what our texts today,our texts all season,are about.Advent doesn’t mean“Countdown.”It means beginning,as in the beginningof God’s reign made manifest.Jesus has been talking to the disciplesa lot more explicitlyabout the end of daysjust before this passage we hearfrom Matthew 24.Jesus talks now abouthow no one knows the day nor the hourthat

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November 9: Twenty-second Sunday after Pentecost

“Some Gen Xers —whose life experiencesleft them so cynicalas to border on nihilistic —approached Jesus and asked him,‘Jesus,do you ever think about your ghost clothes?’”Before he could fix his face,it went on a journey that conveyed“What in all of God’s green earthare you talking about?”Dustin replied,“You know —how whatever you’re wearing when you dieis what

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November 2: All Saints Sunday

Alleluia! Christ is risen!Christ is risen indeed! Alleluia! I love All Saints’ Sunday,maybe especially because we usuallyhave some All Souls,or All Faithful Departedmixed in.In our chapelat the liturgical “West” end of the church –though it’s actually the north –we are remembering thosewho have gone before us.In remembering and acknowledging their deathswe celebrate that Christ is

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