February 2012

The “Bright Sadness of Lent”

by Rick Lord on February 17, 2012

in Best Practices,Liturgy

“A journey, a pilgrimage!  Yet, as we begin it, as we make the first step into the ‘bright sadness’ of Lent, we see–far, far away–the destination.  It is the joy of Easter, it is the entrance into the glory of the kingdom.”  — Alexander Schmemann in “Great Lent: Journey to Pascha” The words, “bright sadness,” [...]

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Personal Authority That Causes Growth

by Rick Lord on February 1, 2012

in Sermons

From my sermon for the Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany: I suspect that most of us have a difficult time relating to the kind of biblical story we have in Mark’s Gospel this morning about an exorcism of an “unclean spirit” from a man in the synagogue and Capernaum. I have come to believe that [...]

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