Posts tagged with: Holy Week

Jesus and that Ass

Palm Sunday 2026 at Sunshine Cathedral MCC, Fort Lauderdale, FL    Isaiah 50.7-9; Psalm 118.19-26; Matthew 21.1-11   Welcome to the Streets: How Did We Get Here? (A Homiletical Exposition of Jesus and that Ass) How did we get here? Matthew begins with a genealogy but does not tell us: Sarah [who abused Hagar and...... Read More

Holy Week

I will use this single post and update it daily.  Monday: Aftermath Wasn’t that something? Everyone was there. Well, everyone who was anyone. We were all there. We who follow Jesus. There were a whole lot of folk around us looking at us like we had lost our minds. But some of them joined in...... Read More

Palm Sunday

Walking the Way: What is this strange thing that we do, walking around our churches and neighborhoods, waving palms from trees that are not native to where we are waiving them (for most of us), accompanied by choirs, the rare few with young acolytes on the backs of donkeys? Is it a living gospel? Is...... Read More

A Lament for Violence

Holy Wednesday Sermon In the Name of God who hears our cries, bear our tears on her wings and empowers us to dry each other’s tears. Amen. Today is a day for lament, even though we will celebrate the Eucharist. The lessons call for lament. The state of the world calls for lament. The state...... Read More