Easter VII / Sunday after Ascension Day May 29, 2022 Acts 1:1-11 Ephesians 1:15-23 Luke 24:44-53 If search for the word ‘ascension’ on the internet, you’ll find that it is a preferred name for everything from insurance companies to healthcare providers and marketing and sales services. You can see why the word has appeal. It…
Easter VI May 22, 2022 Acts 14:8-18 Rev. 21:22 – 22:5 Jn. 14:23-29 You might remember hearing on a Sunday a few weeks ago that the first gift that Jesus gave to his church was the gift of peace. When he appeared to the disciples gathered in fear in the locked upper room in Jerusalem,…
EASTER V May 15, 2022 Acts 11:1-18 Revelation 21:1-16 John 13:31-35 In both French and in English, someone who has a particular way of looking at the world is often said to have ‘an artist’s eye’. We tend to think that this is something that you’re born with rather than something that you can learn…
Easter IV May 8, 2022 Acts 9:36-43 Revelation 7:9-17 John 10:22-30 It’s rather appropriate that the Mother’s Day reading taken from the book of Acts concerns Tabitha. She is also known as Dorcas; the Greek translation of her name which means “Gazelle”. She even has a species of gazelle named after her – gazella dorcas…
Easter III May 1, 2022 Acts 9:1-6 Revelation 5:11-14 John 21:1- 19 In nineteen ninety-eight, churches and organizations associated with the flight of French refugees during the wars of religion in the fifteen hundreds commemorated the four-hundredth anniversary of the promulgation of the Edict of Nantes. Before the Edict (and after its revocation by Louis…