Easter Sunrise Service

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Good Friday Sermon

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Prayer for the Week (April 12-April 18)

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Let us pray to God our Father that we rise with the risen Lord Jesus:  God of all life, help us to believe in life, and see Jesus Christ raised up and alive.  Through the Holy Spirit, may we experience him walking with us on the road of life, so that we be a living people rising up from our ways of indifference.  Fill us with the joy of the Spirit, so that our faith and love never waver, for Christ is risen and we are alive in him through the Holy Spirit.
Amen.

(Claretian Communications) 

Sunday Reflection (April 12, 2020)

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The resurrection of Jesus makes sense of the tragedy, humiliation, and scandal of crucifixion in that the final authority is not death, evil, and hatred; rather, the final authority is life, love, and compassion. The resurrection of Jesus foreshadows the restoration of us and the world in complete unity and harmony with God and one another, yet only the future can prove this hope of resurrection.

We still die, we are still divided, hatred and evil abound, but through the Holy Spirit, God transforms today unto resurrected living. Resurrected living is the transcendence of the and particular and present to grasp the universal and eternal. The ground of that transcendence is the resurrected Christ (Colossians 3:1-4)

Think of this Scripture Reading as a reflection of resurrection living: “Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity (Colossians 3:12-14).” May we embrace resurrected living today!

Daily Devotional, April 9

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Daily Devotional, April 8

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Daily Devotion April 7

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Daily Devotional, April 6

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Sunday Reflection (April 5, 2020)

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The great contrast of Palm-Passion Sunday is the glorious, jubilant entrance with Jesus leaving Jerusalem to Golgotha bearing the cross a few days later. The crowd that had joyously received him ridiculed and rejected him viciously as he bore the cross to Calvary. The disciples flee but his mother and a few other women watch from a distance.

Jesus is hoisted high between heaven and earth. Although shamed by humankind, God is not ashamed of the perseverance and faithfulness of his beloved Son. Jesus refused to act in violence and revenge. Jesus refused to employ divine power to crush those crucifying him. Jesus offered diving forgiveness on his way to the cross with these words, “Father forgive them. They know not what they do.” God’s wisdom overcame human power and the evil misuse of power.

Prayer for the Week (April 5-April 11)

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Let us pray to God who sent us Jesus to reveal God’s love to us:  Lord Jesus, though mocked and derided, you were not put to shame; though beaten and pat upon, you were not disgraced; though innocent and unjustly crucified, you, the Son of God, have been vindicated by your sinless life and exalted to the right hand of power. As we gather to remember your suffering, fill us with your Spirit, conform our thoughts to yours, and teach us your ways so that the world might see in your body, the church, your ongoing ministry of redeeming grace toward this fallen, spent, and weary world.  Amen.

(Lightning from the East, alt.)