Sermon: Good Friday

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Listen to the sermon preached by the Rev. Liz Maxwell on Good Friday, April 3, 2026.

      Sermon - Good Friday 2026 - The Rev. Elizabeth Maxwell

Lessons

You can read the scriptures for this service here: Isaiah 52:13–53:12; Psalm 22; Hebrews 10:16-25; John 18:1–19:42.

The picture above is of a panel from a Bible Quilt by African American artist Harriet Powers (1837-1910). Powers was born into slavery near Athens Georgia in 1837. She was married and had at least nine children. She is remembered especially for two Bible Quilts, one in the National Museum of American History in Washington, DC, and the quilt to which this panel belongs, which is in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.

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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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