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You can read the scripture for December 17, 2017 here.
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Sermon Third Sunday of Advent
Third Sunday of Advent
The Rev. Edwin Chinery
December 17, 2017
You can read the scripture for December 17, 2017 here.
Third Sunday of Advent
The Rev. Edwin Chinery
December 17, 2017

This week, the rector explores the gospel story of the man born blind—a dramatic, often hilarious narrative in which Jesus heals with mud and spit while religious authorities grow increasingly certain the healing is impossible or illegitimate. At the story’s pivot, the healed man offers simple testimony: “I don’t know if he is a sinner. One thing I know. I was blind and now I see.” Mother Liz asks what we know from our own experience that challenges assumptions or contradicts what authorities insist is true, inviting us to follow the blind man’s path: pay attention, be astonished, tell about it.

Listen to the sermon preached by the Rev. Liz Maxwell on the Third Sunday in Lent, March 8, 2026.