Sermon: Fourth Sunday of Easter

detail of painting: Christ as the Good Shepherd, by Lucas Cranach

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Listen to the sermon preached by the Rev. Liz Maxwell on the Fourth Sunday of Easter, May 11, 2025.

      Sermon - Easter IV 2025 - The Rev. Elizabeth Maxwell

Lessons

You can read the scriptures for this service here: Acts 9:36-43; Psalm 23; Revelation 7:9-17; John 10:22-30.

The painting above, “Christus als guter Hirte” (Christ as the Good Shepherd), is a detail from a panel painting attributed to Lucas Cranach the Elder (1515-1586), in the collection of the Angermuseum in Erfurt, Germany.

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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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