Certainty often lines within the bounds of power and authority. When following power and authority, we know what we should and shouldn’t do. Today’s lesson found in the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 7, tells a story of certainty among Scribes and the Pharisees around the Jewish food purity laws and their demands of how people should eat. Yet Jesus directly challenged that understanding of right and wrong, saying that the evil intentions that comes out of a person are what defiles a person, not what goes into the body. Imagine being in the crowd, caught between the teaching of Jesus, the prophet from Nazareth, and the teachings of the reigning power structure that had stood the test of time. How might you react? Listen as Reverend Mary Milano, OP, shares her thoughts around confusing times such as those faced by Jesus’ followers and circumstances we might face today.
Today’s sermon text for August 22, 2021, is taken from Ephesians 6:20-30. Listen as Reverend Mary Milano OP struggles with this complicated text.
Echoing Saint Paul, she explains that we put on the whole armor of God and allow it to change us; so that in our weakness we can reach out to a world that is hurting. While the armor may not protect is from the world, it will us to become all that the Father asks.
Today’s sermon text for August 22, 2021, is taken from Ephesians 6:20-30. Listen as Reverend Mary Milano OP struggles with this complicated text.
Echoing Saint Paul, she explains that we put on the whole armor of God and allow it to change us; so that in our weakness we can reach out to a world that is hurting. While the armor may not protect is from the world, it will us to become all that the Father asks.
Sermon for Augugst What is Wisdom? The Reverend Mary Milano OP answers the questions of wisdom by drawing from the the lessons for this week found in Proverbs 9 and John 6. Sermon for August 15, 2021.
Today’s Old Testament lesson from 2 Samuel 11:1-15 contrasts sharply with the Gospel Lesson found in John 6: 1-2. While both texts center around the offering of a meal, the intention of the hosts were very different and, of course, led to very different outcomes.
Join Reverend Mary Milano this Seventh Sunday after Pentecost as she focuses on the Old Testament lesson for today drawn from 2nd Samuel Chapter 6.
This text points to questions surrounding power and authority. How do we get it? What does it mean? How are our Bodies ultimately connected to the stories we are born into and I live around us? How did King David interact with the power that surrounds him?
Reverend Mary Milano OP raises a number of interesting questions in this weeks sermon. Where is the kingdom? Who is called? Does God change God’s mind? The texts for this Sunday include 1Samuel 15:34-16:13 and the Gospel Lesson Mark 4:26-34.
The text for today's sermon, 1 Samuel 8: 4-11, raises for us questions of our indentity as a community, as a church, and as a family. We must be who we were created to be and accept responsibility for all that unique identity requires.
Today’s sermon, for this Seventh Sunday of Easter, or the Sunday after Ascention draws from John 17: 619.
Reverend Mary Milano OP Begins her sermon by focusing on the historic significance of the week between the 7th Sunday of Easter and Pentecost. It is a common story to all those who find themselves wandering in the wilderness. But more importantly it is the story of celebration of a people who have been given a great gift.
Today’s sermon, for this Fifth Sunday of Easter, draws from Acts 8:26-40. At the heart of us as a community of faith is not a set of answers but a a set of questions. These questions will bring us into the life of a God who dwells with us and who is also with us in our questioning.
Easter is not a point in time but a pointer into time. It's a time of enormous change in light of the resurrection. It's a time for us to understand that death has been defeated. What does that mean for us today?
Mother Mary Milano OP poetically shares the mystery and relationship of baptism and redemption on this Holy Saturday. In this meditation the listener will find nothing but grace, and peace, and transcendence even in the midst of human frailness.
Contemplating the walk we know as the Stations of the Cross on this Good Friday 2021, Reverend Mary Milano OP gives her interpretation of the Last Station. The very human nature of this divine drama becomes apparent as she talks about the continuum of Jesus" life from its beginning, which involves his morther and is Abba reigning in Heaven.
Jesus ride into Jerusalem marking the beginning of Holy Week is nothing short of the energetic movement of salvations progress. Listen as Reverend Mary Milano describes the kind of kinetic energy that is unleashed with this simple act.
John 5:19, Jesus begins by saying “I can do nothing on my own”. If Jesus has learned he can do nothing on his own, can any of us do anything of significant on our own? Listen as Reverend Milano describes the hope and possibility imbedded in the recognition that we can do nothing on our own.
Reverend Mary Milano's sermon for the 4th Sunday in Lent 2021 delves deep into the mystery of joy. While happiness is a feeling that one experiences, joy is commanded by God. Joy is an action in which the human family and all of creation takes part. It is done in community. Even though joy may, at times, co-exist or grow of sorrow, chaos, or dispair, it is always transformational both to the bringer as well as to whom it is brought. It binds us together. We Rejoice!
Mother Mary OP examines the link between idolatry and injustice in our complex world today. Idols are not the images of divinities described in Old Testament texts, but our way of divinizing the things we want most and the way in which we might gain advantage over anything else in creation. Her sermon draws from Psalm 19, the Gospel of John 2:13-22, and other texts for the Third Sunday in Lent.
Reverend Mary Milano OP raises a number of interesting questions in this weeks sermon. Where is the kingdom? Who is called? Does God change God’s mind? The texts for this Sunday include 1Samuel 15:34-16:13 and the Gospel Lesson Mark 4:26-34.
The text for today's sermon, 1 Samuel 8: 4-11, raises for us questions of our indentity as a community, as a church, and as a family. We must be who we were created to be and accept responsibility for all that unique identity requires.
Today’s sermon, for this Seventh Sunday of Easter, or the Sunday after Ascention draws from John 17: 619.
Reverend Mary Milano OP Begins her sermon by focusing on the historic significance of the week between the 7th Sunday of Easter and Pentecost. It is a common story to all those who find themselves wandering in the wilderness. But more importantly it is the story of celebration of a people who have been given a great gift.
Today’s sermon, for this Fifth Sunday of Easter, draws from Acts 8:26-40. At the heart of us as a community of faith is not a set of answers but a a set of questions. These questions will bring us into the life of a God who dwells with us and who is also with us in our questioning.
Easter is not a point in time but a pointer into time. It's a time of enormous change in light of the resurrection. It's a time for us to understand that death has been defeated. What does that mean for us today?
Mother Mary Milano OP poetically shares the mystery and relationship of baptism and redemption on this Holy Saturday. In this meditation the listener will find nothing but grace, and peace, and transcendence even in the midst of human frailness.
Contemplating the walk we know as the Stations of the Cross on this Good Friday 2021, Reverend Mary Milano OP gives her interpretation of the Last Station. The very human nature of this divine drama becomes apparent as she talks about the continuum of Jesus" life from its beginning, which involves his morther and is Abba reigning in Heaven.
Jesus ride into Jerusalem marking the beginning of Holy Week is nothing short of the energetic movement of salvations progress. Listen as Reverend Mary Milano describes the kind of kinetic energy that is unleashed with this simple act.
John 5:19, Jesus begins by saying “I can do nothing on my own”. If Jesus has learned he can do nothing on his own, can any of us do anything of significant on our own? Listen as Reverend Milano describes the hope and possibility imbedded in the recognition that we can do nothing on our own.
Reverend Mary Milano's sermon for the 4th Sunday in Lent 2021 delves deep into the mystery of joy. While happiness is a feeling that one experiences, joy is commanded by God. Joy is an action in which the human family and all of creation takes part. It is done in community. Even though joy may, at times, co-exist or grow of sorrow, chaos, or dispair, it is always transformational both to the bringer as well as to whom it is brought. It binds us together. We Rejoice!
Mother Mary OP examines the link between idolatry and injustice in our complex world today. Idols are not the images of divinities described in Old Testament texts, but our way of divinizing the things we want most and the way in which we might gain advantage over anything else in creation. Her sermon draws from Psalm 19, the Gospel of John 2:13-22, and other texts for the Third Sunday in Lent.
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