Sermon: First Sunday in Lent

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Listen to the sermon preached by the Rev. Liz Maxwell on the First Sunday in Lent, March 9, 2025.

      Sermon - Lent I 2025 - The Rev. Elizabeth Maxwell

Lessons

You can read the scriptures for this service here: Deuteronomy 26:1-11; Psalm 91:1-2, 9-16; Romans 10:8b-13; Luke 4:1-13.

The image above, “Christ Tempted,” is one of a series of glass mosaics, executed in Byzantine style between the late 12th and the mid-13th centuries by both local and Venetian masters, at the Duomo di Monreale in Italy.

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Parish News: May 17

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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