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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In this week’s newsletter, Mother Liz celebrates the parish’s feast day with Malcolm Guite’s sonnet on the Ascension, exploring its paradoxes: ending and beginning, absence and presence, humanity and divinity. Jesus leaves the disciples to fill all things with even more profound intimacy, and it is his broken, still-wounded body—”the heart that broke for all the broken hearted”—that ascends to God’s heart. The rector invites us to sit with these mysteries during the “dazzling darkness” between Ascension and Pentecost, pondering how we are held and hidden with Christ while called to be his presence in a world of crisis, wonder, and grief.

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