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Wednesday of Trinity 11 – Luke 22:14-30

Last updated on: August 18, 2015 at 4:56 pm By Fr. Charles Erlandson

Luke 22:14-30 Personally, I find time a very confusing creation. I look back to when I bought my first Beatles record in 1974, and it seemed as if the Beatles must have at that date been broken up for an entire generation. In fact, it had been 4 years. But now it’s been 35 years since I bought that record, which is not only much longer than the time between the Beatles’ breakup and my first Beatles record, but is... Read more

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Fr. Charles Erlandson

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2015-08-17T19:30:35-05:00

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Tuesday Trinity 11 – Luke 22:1-13

Last updated on: August 17, 2015 at 7:30 pm By Fr. Charles Erlandson

Luke 22:1-13 It feels strange to approach so close to Easter while still in summer! Now that Jesus has commanded the disciples to make the Passover ready, I can smell Holy Week in this passage, for there is an indescribable and terrible feeling of holiness I feel whenever Holy Week is here. And why shouldn’t it be here in the middle of August as well, for what Jesus did at the Passover has meaning for Christians every day of their... Read more

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Easter

Fr. Charles Erlandson

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2015-08-16T17:14:55-05:00

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Monday Trinity 11 – Luke 21:20-38

Last updated on: August 16, 2015 at 5:14 pm By Fr. Charles Erlandson

Luke 21:20-38 I’ll admit it. This is a difficult passage to meditate on. Difficult because we are immediately faced with the difficulty of having to apply such a passage that has eschatological (pertaining to the “Last Things”) implications. I would like to continue Saturday’s perspective, which requires us to avoid twin errors: first, that the passage is so completely connected to the past events of Jesus and His disciples that we can find no relevance for us today, and second... Read more

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Fr. Charles Erlandson

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Saturday of Trinity 10 – Luke 21:5-19

Last updated on: August 15, 2015 at 11:07 am By Fr. Charles Erlandson

Luke 21:5-19 “They will lay their hands on you and persecute you.” This is what Jesus promises to His disciples will happen to them. If you’re like me, you probably think about this how this passage might apply to you in terms of hypotheticals. “Some day, when things have gotten bad enough, I too may be persecuted, and I want to be ready.” But to the disciples to whom Jesus was speaking, the threat of persecution was a not a... Read more

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Fr. Charles Erlandson

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2015-08-13T07:12:26-05:00

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Friday of Trinity 10 – Luke 20:41-21:4

Last updated on: August 13, 2015 at 7:12 am By Fr. Charles Erlandson

Luke 20:41-21:4 WYSIWYG. “What You See Is What You Get.” It was a revolutionary principle years ago when Apple came out with an operating system that worked under the principle of WYSIWYG. Eventually, Apple forced Microsoft to become better and adopt this principle of computer graphics instead of the nerdy and Herculean system known as DOS. But what works best in the world of computers isn’t always what’s true for humans. With humans, in this world where God’s glory is... Read more

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Thursday of Trinity 10 – Luke 20:27-40

Last updated on: August 12, 2015 at 11:11 pm By Fr. Charles Erlandson

Luke 20:27-40 It’s refreshing to see the words and logic of someone else besides the Pharisees fail. This time it’s the Sadducees. Actually, after Jesus decisively answers the Sadducees, it is really Strike Three. In Luke 20:1-8, the chief priests and scribes take a swing at Jesus and miss. In Luke 20:20-26, it’s a swing and a miss with the Pharisees. This morning the Sadducees complete the strike out, and Jesus retires the side. It’s easy to retroactively laugh at... Read more

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Easter

Fr. Charles Erlandson

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2015-08-11T16:55:22-05:00

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Wednesday of Trinity 10 – Luke 20:9-26

Last updated on: August 11, 2015 at 4:55 pm By Fr. Charles Erlandson

Luke 20:9-26 The parable of the wicked vinedressers is a parable that Jesus spoke primarily to the Jews. They are the ones who were given God’s vineyard and told to keep it. They were the ones who had God’s servants the prophets sent to them so that they might be reminded to bear fruit, and they were the ones who beat and mistreated the prophets. In the end, they were the ones who, with the aid of the Romans, both... Read more

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faithfulness

Fr. Charles Erlandson

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Tuesday of Trinity 10 – Luke 19:47-20:8

Last updated on: August 10, 2015 at 6:08 pm By Fr. Charles Erlandson

Luke 19:47-20:8 Who is Jesus Christ? Careful! The way you answer this question determines everything else in life: it’s important to get it right. The chief priest and scribes in Luke 20 get it wrong. Very wrong. “Who is he who gave you this authority?” they ask. And they should know. It should be clear by now to them that Jesus’ authority comes from the Father. Now it could be that they are really that dense and just don’t know,... Read more

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Christ’s authority

Fr. Charles Erlandson

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Monday of Trinity 10 – Luke 19:29-40

Last updated on: August 9, 2015 at 9:00 pm By Fr. Charles Erlandson

Luke 19:29-40 The appropriate response to being in the presence of Jesus is joy and praise. Both of these things are needed, and both are present whenever Jesus is present and is received with faith. It seems odd to be reading about the Triumphal Entry of Jesus on Palm Sunday at the end of summer, in the middle of the long season of Trinity that doesn’t have the landmarks of other seasons like Christmas or Easter. But the Triumphal Entry... Read more

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Fr. Charles Erlandson

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Saturday of Trinity 9 – Luke 19:11-28

Last updated on: August 7, 2015 at 4:28 pm By Fr. Charles Erlandson

Luke 19:11-28 Jesus is a persistent Master, isn’t He? Didn’t He just finish teaching us in Luke 16:1-13 that we should be faithful with our money and gifts and to give an account of our stewardship? And then in Luke 16:19-31 He told us about the rich man who had not been faithful with the riches he had been given and refused to share God’s gifts with Lazarus. And here He is again in Luke 19:11-28 reminding us that He... Read more

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Fr. Charles Erlandson

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