“Blessed is He Who Comes in the Name of the Lord” — Sermon for Palm Sunday, A.D. MMXXVI

          “Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! … Hosanna in the highest!” Today, as Christ enters Jerusalem, the crowds are raucous with joy. Today they welcome the Lord. In five short days, they will condemn Him: “His blood be on us and on our children!” (Mt 27:25).           Lest we […]

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“Sin is Real” — Sermon for the I Sunday of Lent, A.D. MMXXVI

          It’s incredible how popular Ash Wednesday is. The simple ritual of placing ashes on people’s heads captures the imagination of the whole world. In the days of a thoroughly Christian West, our lives were constantly punctuated by these sorts of rituals, but this, along with Palm Sunday, to which it is so closely connected, […]

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“Perhaps God Will Relent” — Sermon for Ash Wednesday, A.D. MMXXVI

“Rend your hearts, not your garments, and return to the LORD, your God. … Perhaps he will again relent and leave behind him a blessing.”             It’s a strange note on which to begin Lent, this “perhaps.” Perhaps God will forgive seems to imply, perhaps He won’t. Doesn’t this contradict what we were just told […]

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“Overcoming Anger” — Sermon for the VI Sunday through the Year, A.D. MMXXVI

“Whoever is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment; … and whoever says, ‘You fool,’ will be liable to fiery Gehenna.”           It’s clear that we have a problem with anger. Whether it’s the news or social media, or the way that people respond to the employees at stores and restaurants, there are […]

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