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The sparrow has found her a house

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All Saints’, Dorval Lent IV, Year C (Psalm 84 substituted for 32) March 27, 2022 For those of you who can’t see the picture on the screens right now, it shows my colleague Tracy Wells Miller – coincidentally, wearing the same green vestments that we use here – presiding at an outdoor service at the end of January (she lives… View Post

Good fruit on the fig tree

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All Saints’, Dorval Lent III, Year C March 20, 2022 Cooking apples down into baby food at a World Central Kitchen facility in Poland (Steven Givot, Facebook) This is one of those Sundays where you really want to be able to talk back to Jesus and say, “OK, which one is it?” Today’s Gospel reading addresses one of the most… View Post

Fasting to feast

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All Saints’, Dorval Lent I, Year C March 6, 2022 When I was a child, my family gave up sweets and desserts for Lent. Some of my elementary and middle school classmates were very mean to me about this (I vividly recall at least one occasion of having a Snickers bar waved in my face in the lunchroom), but it… View Post

In the mud together, loving one another

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All Saints’, Dorval Ash Wednesday, Year C March 2, 2022   This is the sermon as written. It ended up being preached somewhat differently at each service. Then you shall call, and the LORD will answer; you shall cry for help, and he will say, Here I am. If you remove the yoke from among you, the pointing of the… View Post

Body, Kingdom, Seed

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All Saints’, Dorval Epiphany VII, Year C February 20, 2022   Illustration by Pauline Baynes, from The Last Battle What do you want your resurrected body to be like? Maybe you’d like to be six inches taller, or have glorious long red curls, or the kind of eyes that only exist in romance novels. Maybe you’d like to be able… View Post