Grace, Peace, and Mercy from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. To begin an Easter Sermon, we must begin by praising God. Back home in Puerto Rico, it is almost a requirement for the congregation to respond to the preacher, so I’ll take advantage of this to teach you a little Spanish today: I will […]

Grace, Peace, and Mercy from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. Some of my favorite sources of inspiration are movies. And when approaching this text from John’s Gospel, inspiration struck me once more from a Japanese film by the great Akira Kurosawa. I’ll be spoiling it for all of you a little bit, but it’s […]

Grace, Peace, and Mercy from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. St. Francis of Assisi, whom we have depicted in our stained glass window, used to have a deep aversion to lepers. It was said by some early biographies that “So greatly loathsome was the sight of lepers to him…that, in the days of his […]