Sermon: The Sunday of the Passion

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Listen to the sermon preached by the Rev. Liz Maxwell on Palm Sunday, the Sunday of the Passion, April 13, 2025.

      Sermon - Palm Sunday 2025 - The Rev. Elizabeth Maxwell

Lessons

You can read the scriptures for this service here: Luke 19:28-40; Isaiah 50:4-9a; Psalm 31:9-16; Philippians 2:5-11; Luke 22:14-23:56.

The painting above, “Christ and the Robber,” is by Nikolai Ge (1831-1894) and is in the collection of the Kyiv National Art Gallery.


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Parish News: May 10

In this week’s newsletter, the rector reflects on “Glorians”—a term from Terry Tempest Williams describing encounters with grace and wonder in the natural world, like an ant carrying a pink blossom across the desert or the discovery that ancient horseshoe crabs have blue blood used to test vaccine purity. These ordinary, extraordinary moments reveal our vulnerability and connection with creation, calling us to lament, praise, and care. Mother Liz links this to Sunday’s gospel promise that we dwell in Christ and Christ in us—a mysterious communion revealed to those who love, inviting us to be present to the holy in the everyday.

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