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First Sunday in Lent – February 21, 2021

We continue our forty-day Lenten journey with Jesus, focusing on repentance, renewal, reconciliation, and God’s relationship with us through Jesus Christ. On Ash Wednesday the church began its Lenten journey toward baptismal immersion in the death and resurrection of Christ. This year, the Sundays in Lent lead us to focus on five covenants God makes […]

Ash Wednesday – February 17, 2021

We begin the season of Lent, when we venture on a forty-day journey with Jesus, focusing on repentance, renewal, reconciliation, and God’s relationship with us through Jesus Christ. On Ash Wednesday we begin our forty-day journey toward Easter with a day of fasting and repentance. Marking our foreheads with dust, we acknowledge that we die […]

Transfiguration of Our Lord – February 14, 2021

During the Epiphany season, Jesus is revealed to us that he is the anointed one of God, the Christ, sent to save humanity and creation. The Sundays after Epiphany began with Jesus’ baptism and end with three disciples’ vision of his transfiguration. In Mark’s story of Jesus’ baptism, apparently only Jesus sees the Spirit descending […]

Fifth Sunday after Epiphany – February 7, 2021

During the Epiphany season, Jesus is revealed to us that he is the anointed one of God, the Christ, sent to save humanity and creation. In today’s reading from Isaiah, the one God, who sits above the earth and numbers the stars, also strengthens the powerless. Then, in the reading from Mark, we see the […]

Fourth Sunday after Epiphany – January 31, 2021

During the Epiphany season, Jesus is revealed to us that he is the anointed one of God, the Christ, sent to save humanity and creation. In today’s reading from Deuteronomy, God promises to raise up a prophet like Moses, who will speak for God. In the reading from Mark, Jesus teaches with authority and heals […]