Category: Sermons

  • A Love that Reckons Us Righteous (Lent 2A)

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    Sean

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    O Lord God, how am I to know?1 Does Abram’s prayer sound familiar to you? Do you ever find yourself saying or thinking these words? Do you sometimes feel embarrassed or ashamed even to ask them? O Lord God, how am I to know? For myself, I find these words of Abram often rise in…

  • A Temple Built for All (Candlemas)

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    Sean

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    “When the time came for their purification according to the Law of Moses, they brought him up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord.” Today, with St. Luke the Evangelist, the church recalls Jesus’ presentation in the temple at Jerusalem: the place where the presence of YHWH was understood to dwell, where heaven and…

  • Providential Awkwardness

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    Sean

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    Friday after the AscensionPsalm 98:1–4John 19:20–23a This sermon was originally preached by Br. Sean Glenn [then, a novice of the ssje] on Friday, May 11, 2018 at the Conventual Church of St. Mary & St. John, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Sing to the Lord a new song.2 The Psalmist exhorts us to sing a song we’ve never…