Luke 24:13-35 For many Sundays now, stretching back into Lent, excluding Palm Sunday, we’ve been hearing stories of Jesus which come from the Gospel of John. On Easter Sunday we heard of Mary Magdelene’s encounter with the risen Jesus right outside His tomb. Last week, on that same resurrection day, the disciples gathered in an upper room where Jesus appeared to them. Today’s Gospel comes from another source, from Luke, and we are told, that very day, the first day of th

Welcome happy morning age to age shall say – so goes the hymn. Today, we who follow Jesus, we who live so much after the first Easter morning, shout with joy. But at sunrise on that first Easter day, the people who loved Jesus were not joyful. Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb… Mornings can be such a lovely time. If you manage to get up before the birds, you can hear them begin to sing as the world awakens to a n

John 11: 1-45 What did the people of Jesus day think of Him, this itinerant Rabi who wandered from town to town and city to city accompanied by His followers, performing miracles, and signs, and preaching His message of love and forgiveness. Over and over He affirms that He and the Father are one, and encourages His fellow Jews, and later on even those not of the Jewish faith, to repent, to forgive others, to fully and completely love each other and God. We know that the