Second Sunday of Advent Year C RCL Sermon Audio: December 6, 2009-The Rev’d Warren Hicks Malachi 3:1-4 Canticle 16 Philippians 1:3-11 Luke 3:1-6
This week’s collect has us put on the armor of light, and today’s reading from Matthew talks about putting on the wedding robe in order to be welcomed into the banquet. These two images speak to me of a deliberate act on our part, a choice we have to make to embrace God’s light-filled living [...]
Psalm 5, 6; Amos 3:1-11; 2 Peter 1:12-21; Matt. 21:12-22. Lesser Feasts & Fasts: Nicholas Ferrar, Deacon. “Truly I tell you, if you have faith and do not doubt, not only will you do what has been done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, “Be lifted up and thrown [...]
Monday of the first week of Advent Psalms 1, 2, and 3 Amos 2:6-16 2 Peter 1:1-11 Matthew 21:1-11 It’s always jarring when we read a passage we associate with Holy Week during Advent. Our gospel passage tells of the entry into Jerusalem—a Palm Sunday text. What is that doing here? But even though we [...]
First Sunday of Advent Year C RCL Sermon Audio for November 29, 2009-The Rev’d Warren Hicks Jeremiah 33:14-16 Psalm 25:1-9 1 Thessalonians 3:9-13 Luke 21:25-36
