Sermon: Fifth Sunday after Pentecost

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Listen to the sermon preached by the Rev. Liz Maxwell on the Fifth Sunday after Pentecost, July 13, 2025.

      Sermon - Pentecost V 2025 - The Rev. Elizabeth Maxwell

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You can read the scriptures for this service here: Amos 7:7-17; Psalm 82; Colossians 1:1-14; Luke 10:25-37.

The picture above depicts the Parable of the Good Samaritan, with Christ in the title character role, from the world’s oldest extant illustrated manuscript of the Gospels: the Rossano Gospels (ca. 550-559), discovered in the diocesan cathedral of Rossano, Italy.

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