Malachi 3:1-4 Luke 1:68-79 Phil 1:3-11 Luke 3:1-6 A few years ago, around this time, I was channel surfing one evening through dozens of Christmas shows, info-mercials and holiday movies. I stopped on one channel and began half-heartedly watching a talk show hosted by a Nun. Mother Angelica was her name and I had seen…
I Kings 17:8-16 Psalm 146 Hebrews 9:24-28 Mark 12:38-44 In today’s Gospel reading, we meet a woman whose name is lost to us forever though we know she was a widow—a poor widow. She gave a tiny offering that day about a penny’s worth of coins. While Jesus and the disciples watched a crowd of…
Healing Service Psalm 139:1-6,11-14 Mark 5:21-24,35-42 Talitha cum! Little girl get up! Jesus enters the house of Jairus—a man who has come to beg him to heal his dying child. But by the time they have arrived at the home, she is dead. Yet, Jesus tells Jairus not to fear because his little girl is…
October 1st, 2006 Numbers 11:4-6, 10-16, 24-29 Mark 9:38-50 Which is better? Slavery and rich foods or freedom and bread? Is it better to bow down to a master and have our physical needs cared for or to live in freedom and rely upon God alone for our needs? I had a friend once, named…
What I want to proclaim to you today is that Jesus’ heals the sick, makes the blind to see, the deaf to hear, the mute to speak. I want to tell you that he is the healer of our every ill, that he makes all things well. But, I don’t know how to do that.…
Shepherdess Writes 