Sermon: Fifth Sunday after the Epiphany

stone relief sculpture showing the Purification of Isaiah

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Listen to the sermon preached by the Rev. Liz Maxwell on the Fifth Sunday after the Epiphany, February 9, 2025.

      Sermon - Epiphany V 2025 - The Rev. Elizabeth Maxwell

Lessons

You can read the scriptures for this service here: Isaiah 6:1-13; Psalm 138; 1 Corinthians 15:1-11; Luke 5:1-11.

The image above, “The Purification of Isaiah,” is a quatrefoil relief sculpture, ca. 1220-1240, on the western exterior of the Cathédrale d’Amiens, France, depicting a seraph purifying Isaiah by touching his lips with a burning coal.


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