Sermons from June 2024
Fifth Sunday after Pentecost
Gospel: Mark 4:35-41 A reading from the Gospel of Mark. Glory to you, O Lord. When evening had come, [Jesus said to the disciples,] “Let us go across to the other side.” And leaving the crowd behind, they took him with them in the boat, just as he was. Other boats were with him. A great windstorm arose, and the waves beat into the boat, so that the boat was already being…
Fourth Sunday after Pentecost
Gospel: Mark 4:26-34 A reading from the Gospel of Mark. Glory to you, O Lord. [Jesus] said, “The kingdom of God is as if someone would scatter seed on the ground, and would sleep and rise night and day, and the seed would sprout and grow, he does not know how. The earth produces of itself, first the stalk, then the head, then the full grain in the head. But when the grain…
Third Sunday after Pentecost
Gospel: Mark 3:20-35 A reading from the Gospel of Mark. Glory to you, O Lord. [Jesus went home;] and the crowd came together again, so that [Jesus and the disciples] could not even eat. When his family heard it, they went out to restrain him, for people were saying, “He has gone out of his mind.” And the scribes who came down from Jerusalem said, “He has Beelzebul, and by…
Second Sunday of Pentecost
Gospel: Mark 2:23-3:6 A reading from the Gospel of Mark. Glory to you, O Lord. One sabbath [Jesus] was going through the grain fields; and as they made their way his disciples began to pluck heads of grain. The Pharisees said to him, “Look, why are they doing what is not lawful on the sabbath?” And he said to them, “Have you never read what David did when he and his…