A Prayer for the Pastor/Preacher/Priest at the Triduum

One of the strange things about being a pastor serving the Church at a council of churches is that I don’t have responsibilities to one particular congregation as their pastor. No one invites a guest preacher in for Palm Sunday or Easter. Yet, I have lovely vantage point to observe and pray for all those …

Potato-farming & Resurrection: A sermon for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity 2012

(somehow I forgot to post this in January- enjoy this slightly aged sermon) Wednesday January 24, 2012- Conversion of St. Paul and the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity St. Joseph’s Roman Catholic Parish, Needham 1 Corinthians 15: 51-58 and John 12: 23-26 “Listen, I will tell you a mystery! We will not all die, …

Homewrecker

Rev. Laura Everett First Lutheran Church of Malden, Sunday March 11, 2012 “Homewrecker” John 2:13-22 “The Passover of the Jews was near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. In the temple he found people selling cattle, sheep, and doves, and the money changers seated at their tables. Making a whip of cords, he drove all of …