Sermon: Fifth Sunday in Lent

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Listen to the sermon preached by the Rev. Ed Chinery on the Fifth Sunday in Lent, April 6, 2025.

      Sermon - Lent V 2025 - The Rev. Edwin Chinery

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You can read the scriptures for this service here: Isaiah 43:16-21; Psalm 126; Philippians 3:4b-14; John 12:1-8.

The illustration above, “Nardostachys grandiflora,” probably by John Nugent Fitch (1840-1927), comes from Curtis’s Botanical Magazine, Vol. 107 (1881), and shows the flowering plant from which spikenard (the ancient nard) is derived.


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This Sunday, everyone is welcome to join us for Welcome Back Sunday, a joyful celebration of returning to full parish life after summer. The season turns with the cooler air, the return of our choir, and the resumption of two Sunday morning services. (The 6 pm Sunday service of Meditation & Sacrament continues, as well.) We’ll mark the occasion with festive fellowship and opportunities to reconnect with parish programs. At its heart, “coming home” means belonging — finding shelter in God and in one another, where faith, doubts, joys, and sorrows are all embraced. Whether longtime members or newcomers, all are warmly welcomed home.

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