Third Sunday of Easter: Second Reading, Revelation 5:8-14 Revelation 5:8-14 A text of rejoicing. It’s proper. We’re in a season for rejoicing after all. Not too much comment but to say this: upon your reading and pondering of the text above, do...
Third Sunday of Easter: Psalm, Psalm 30 Psalm 30 It has been a terrible day so far. 8:43 a.m. on a beautiful Spring morning in Michigan. You’d think my mind and heart would be tilted differently...
Second Sunday of Easter: Gospel, John 20:19-31 John 20:19-31 This pericope or smaller section of the twentieth chapter of John is so full. It is difficult to know what to address in our meditation for the week. At first I thought I would...
Second Sunday of Easter: Second Reading, Revelation 1:4-18 Revelation 1:4-18 Are there elements of the Christian message, the biblical Christian message that you struggle with? Perhaps modern, or postmodern world thinking has dulled your thought. Or perhaps your hope? I am a...
Second Sunday of Easter: First Reading, Acts 5:12-20 Acts 5:12-20 I am sure that in all the meditations I have written, I have addressed this passage. I love it for several reasons and if you happen to remember (your memory would be better than mine)...
The Resurrection of our Lord: Gospel, Luke 24:1-12 Luke 24:1-12 Luke’s gospel brings to us the resurrection narrative for this day of celebration. Victory in Christ’s resurrection is a constant theme of this day’s...
The Resurrection of our Lord: Psalm, Psalm 16 Psalm 16 This special week, this truly “Holy Week” I decided to call upon King David as author and worshiper for the divine insights shared with him from above. Psalm 16 moves us to...
The Resurrection of our Lord: Old Testament, Isaiah 65:17-25 Isaiah 65:17-25 Isaiah is a master of casting our eyes and hearts forward. And he does that for us in our reading this week. Something else struck me, too. What comes through the prophet here...
Palm Sunday (Sunday of the Passion): Gospel, Luke 22:1-23:56 Luke 22:1-23:56 Another Sunday with options for the reading of the gospel. There aren’t too many of those Sundays, but in this week’s case choice may be necessitated due to time. The major reading is...
Palm Sunday: Epistle, Philippians 2:5-11 Philippians 2:5-11 “Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal...
