Sermon: Fifth Sunday of Easter

painting: Peter Preaching, by Fra Angelico

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Listen to the sermon preached by the Rev. Ed Chinery on the Fifth Sunday of Easter, May 18, 2025.

      Sermon - Easter V 2025 - The Rev. Edwin Chinery

Lessons

You can read the scriptures for this service here: Acts 11:1-18; Psalm 148; Revelation 21:1-6; John 13:31-35.

The picture above, “Peter Preaching,” is a painting by Fra Angelico (ca. 1400-1455), and is in the collection of the Museo Nazionale di San Marco in Florence, Italy.


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