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Father Nicholas Lang
- Jul 12, 2020
- 4 min
The Sixth Sunday After Pentecost
For the next three Sundays, the Gospel passages are a series of parables or short stories with metaphors and analogies concerning the...
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Father Nicholas Lang
- Jun 21, 2020
- 3 min
Third Sunday After Pentecost
Episcopal priest and author, Barbara Crafton, has written about how people are prone to “rank” each other. “People from one part of the...
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Father Nicholas Lang
- Jun 14, 2020
- 4 min
Second Sunday after Pentecost
I have been blessed to witness it about three hundred times in my priestly ministry. After I have made the sign of the cross on their...
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Father Nicholas Lang
- Jun 7, 2020
- 3 min
Trinity Sunday
Trinity Sunday. That’s today’s headliner. Who made it so for us Anglicans? Thomas Becket was consecrated Archbishop of Canterbury on the...
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Father Nicholas Lang
- May 31, 2020
- 4 min
Pentecost
God’s love for us is as warm as a flame, reaching into every cold place and breathing new life as the Creator, Redeemer, and Sustainer....
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Father Nicholas Lang
- May 24, 2020
- 4 min
Ascension Sunday
Do anyone of us not know what it’s like to experience an 'in between time' in our life? That uncomfortable stage when we know things are...
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Father Nicholas Lang
- May 17, 2020
- 4 min
The Sixth Sunday of Easter
I’ve always enjoyed Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s mystery story characters Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. Many actors have played these roles...
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Father Nicholas Lang
- May 10, 2020
- 4 min
The Fifth Sunday of Easter
Chaim Potok was a deeply religious rabbi and prolific author of novels. He once gave a lecture at Johns Hopkins University on vocational...
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Father Nicholas Lang
- May 3, 2020
- 4 min
The Fourth Sunday in Easter
In the Gospel today, Jesus refers to himself as 'the gate,' which is one of a number of translations of the Greek word θυρα (thura) in...
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Father Nicholas Lang
- Apr 26, 2020
- 4 min
The Third Sunday of Easter
If you have ever felt as if you had lost your way in life, if you have ever experienced profound sadness, if you have ever wondered when...
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Father Nicholas Lang
- Apr 19, 2020
- 4 min
The Second Sunday in Easter
Easter 2 – April 19, 2020 An older lady was pulled over for speeding. “Is there a problem, Officer?” she asked. “Ma'am, you were...
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Father Nicholas Lang
- Apr 12, 2020
- 5 min
Easter Sunday
May the wonder of Christ’s rising be seen in every dawn, the love of God as wide as the skies, and the power of the Holy Spirit invite us...
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Father Nicholas Lang
- Apr 10, 2020
- 5 min
Good Friday
People flock to Sedona, Arizona from all over the world to watch the sun rise, and set, and to see its reflection off the region's famed...
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Father Nicholas Lang
- Apr 9, 2020
- 4 min
Maundy Thursday
In the dining room of the house in which I grew up was a large framed picture of Jesus and his disciples at the Last Supper. Perhaps you...
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Father Nicholas Lang
- Apr 5, 2020
- 4 min
Palm Sunday
In the year 30 AD, a grand procession entered the city of Jerusalem to pay tribute to an important Roman leader. Drums and trumpets and a...
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Father Nicholas Lang
- Mar 29, 2020
- 5 min
The Fifth Sunday in Lent
It was a dire situation. Their brother Lazarus was dead. He was a not an old man and, even though the expected lifespan was considerably...
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Father Nicholas Lang
- Mar 22, 2020
- 5 min
The Fourth Sunday in Lent
“Who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” That’s the sticky question that comes from a long-held but erroneous...
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