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Sermons from Christ Church Cathedral
May 13, 2012
Youth Sunday
Litton Whitaker, preacher
Good morning everyone, and thank you for coming to Youth Sunday. I especially give kudos to the mothers in the pews—Happy Mother’s Day. You could be still in bed, legs kicked up, and taking in your 24 hours of carte blanche.
The Fourth Sunday of Easter
The Rev. Dr. Robert MacSwain
Acts 4.5-12
Psalm 23
1 John 3.16-24
John 10.11-18
My goal is to begin this sermon sounding like an English tour guide, and to end it sounding like an Episcopal priest. Yes, there is a difference.
Joshua Caler | 2 Easter, April 15, 2012 | Christ Church Cathedral, Nashville, TN
Around the Church and over the centuries, the second Sunday of Eastertide has gone under several aliases. Every profession develops its own jargon and shorthand; clerics it seems are no exception. Among the various names given this Sunday have been:
- "Low Sunday" - to designate its relationship to the "High Sunday" that began the Easter Octave, the Feast of the Resurrection.
- "Thomas Sunday" - in reference to the Gospel lesson that has been read this week since at least the 5th century.
- "Alb Sunday" - because in the ancient Church, those converts who were newly baptized at the Easter Vigil would wear their baptismal gowns, or albs, through the entire week of the Easter Octave, being allowed to take them off only after this Sunday.
The Very Rev. Timothy E. Kimbrough
Christ Church Cathedral
April 08, 2012
Easter Day, Year B
Propers for the same
This past week I was shuffling through a stack of magazine articles that friends and parishioners drop off in my mailbox or leave on my desk from time to time. I dug down deep looking for one to read over a sandwich at midday. My hands came to rest on a yellowed article from Atlantic Monthly entitled, “The Hands that Would Shape Our Souls? The changing and often deeply troubled world of America’s Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish seminaries.” It was a lengthy and fascinating article on the state of the Church and the nature of call-nurture and review throughout the United States in the latter half of the past century.
Joshua M. Caler
Good Friday, 2012
Christ Church Cathedral, Nashville, TN
There is nothing polite about Good Friday. Nothing is sanitized, no euphemisms are employed, no diversions are offered. The Son of God, the Word made flesh, the Second person of the Trinity is crucified for the sins of the world.
The Rev. Canon Gene B. Manning
Maundy Thursday
April 5, 2012
Ex 12:1-14a, Ps 78:14-20, 23-25
ICor 11:23-32, Jn 13:1-15
Tonight, this most holy night, we gather to contemplate and participate in the Mystery. Rather than try to understand all that is before us, for we can never truly do so; let us be still and present to the Spirit that is moving in this place as we allow God be God and as we remember the eternal promise of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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