Sermon: Second Sunday in Lent

painting: God's Promise to Abram, by James Tissot

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Listen to the sermon preached by the Rev. Megan Sanders, chaplain to Canterbury Downtown (the community of Episcopalians as students, faculty and staff at Manhattan’s downtown schools of higher learning), on the Second Sunday in Lent, March 16, 2025.

      Sermon - Lent II 2025 - The Rev. Megan Sanders

Lessons

You can read the scriptures for this service here: Genesis 15:1-12,17-18; Philippians 3:17-4:1; Psalm 27; Luke 13:31-35.

The image above, “God’s Promise to Abram,” was painted by James Tissot (1836-1902) and is part of the collection at the Jewish Museum here in New York City.

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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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