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The Church of Saint Matthew - Saint Paul’s West Side10.31.2020 HomilyWe celebrate today the feast of all saints. Saints are men and women who have lived their Christian life in an extraordinary way. And there are all different kinds of saints, a great variety of saints. But to understand the truth of the gospel, I think it is good to go to those lives of the saints, because they're the ones who, we are told, lived out the truth of the gospel in an exemplary fashion. And I would suggest going to the lives of the saints who are, if you will current, if they are part of our...2023-04-2007 minThe Church of Saint Matthew - Saint Paul’s West Side10.31.2020 Gospel Matthew Chapter 5The Lord be with you.
The gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ according to Matthew
When Jesus saw the crowd He went up the side of the hill, and there He sat down and He gathered his disciples around Him and He began to teach them. He said, "Blessed are the poor in spirit. Theirs is the kingdom of God. Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted. Blessed are the meek. They will inherit the earth. Blessed are those who hunger and who thirst for what is right. They will be satisfied. B...2023-04-2001 minThe Church of Saint Matthew - Saint Paul’s West Side10.25.2020 HomilyJudaism is a religion that is highly contained within the law. The observance of the law is the sign of holiness. The observance of the law is a sign of one's commitment to God. And while there are some major laws, there are so many minor laws as well, over 600. And the Pharisees were people who really were focused on the law. And they really wanted to hold people accountable to the law, a law that was almost impossible to observe because it was so broad, so wide, so multiple, that a human being would find it really difficult...2023-04-2006 minThe Church of Saint Matthew - Saint Paul’s West Side10.25.2020 Gospel Matthew Chapter 22The Lord be with you.
The gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ according to Matthew
When the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together in a group. And one of them, a student of the law, asked Jesus, "Teacher, of all the commandments which is the greatest? Jesus said, "You will love the Lord your God with all your mind, with all your heart, with all your strength. And you will love your neighbor as yourself. The entire law and the prophets depend on these two commandments.”
The gospel of t...2023-04-2000 minThe Church of Saint Matthew - Saint Paul’s West Side10.17.2020 HomilyThe Pharisees continued to try to trap Jesus. They continued to try to get Him to say something that they can hold against Him. Now the difficulty with the Pharisees is they are really wed to binary thinking. A thing must be good, or it must be bad. A thing must be right, or it must be wrong. A thing must be something we do or something we avoid, exclusively seeing the world as black and white. So do we pay the tax or don't we pay the tax?
If Jesus says don't pay the tax, then He...2023-04-2005 minThe Church of Saint Matthew - Saint Paul’s West Side10.17.2020 Gospel Matthew Chapter 22The Lord be with you.
The gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ according to Matthew
The Pharisees left and went to plot how they could catch Jesus in his speech. They sent their disciples and the Herodians to Jesus, and they said, "Teacherwe know you are a truthful man. And we know that you teach the ways of God in all truth. We know that you fear not the opinions of others because you do not give regard to people's stature. So now we ask you, is it right to pay the census tax or n...2023-04-2001 minThe Church of Saint Matthew - Saint Paul’s West Side10.10.2020 HomilyThe teaching of this parable is about being called, being invited, being welcomed. And what Jesus says is the kingdom of God is like a king who welcomes people into the feast; who calls them into the feast. Now the call is very important, but just as important is the response to the call, saying yes.
We're told in the gospel today that people had excuses. One had to go to the farm and another one had to go and do business. St. Luke tells the whole story and St. Luke fleshes it out a little bit. He s...2023-04-2006 minThe Church of Saint Matthew - Saint Paul’s West Side10.10.2020 Gospel Matthew Chapter 22The Lord be with you.
The gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ according to Matthew
Jesus spoke to the chief priests and the elders of the people, and he told them this parable, "The kingdom of heaven is like a king who gives a wedding banquet for his son. He sends his servants to call the invited guests, but they refuse to come. He sends other servants to again call the guests and he says, Everything is prepared. I have killed the fatted calf and the cattle. Come to the feast. So they went and a...2023-04-2001 minThe Church of Saint Matthew - Saint Paul’s West Side10.04.2020 HomilyThe gospels are not biographies of Jesus. They are reflections on the life and the teaching of Jesus that come out of local communities of faith. And those communities of faith are communities that have lived some distance from the time of Jesus' ministry.
The gospel according to Matthew was probably written around the year 80. So it's 50 years after the death and resurrection of Jesus, and it was written by a community living in Syria. And that community was made up of Jewish converts to Christianity and Gentile converts to Christianity. And there was a fierce tension between t...2023-04-2006 minThe Church of Saint Matthew - Saint Paul’s West Side10.04.2020 Gospel Matthew Chapter 21The Lord be with you.
The gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ according to Matthew
Jesus said to the scribes and to the Pharisees, "Listen to this parable. There once was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He put a fence around it and he dug a vat and he raised a tower. And then he leased the vineyard out to tenant farmers and he went off on a long journey. When harvest time came, he sent his servants to collect his share of the produce. When the tenant farmers saw them come, they laid ho...2023-04-2002 minThe Church of Saint Matthew - Saint Paul’s West Side09.27.2020 HomilyThe gospel passage today begins with Jesus telling a story about a father who asked his sons to go to work, go into the vineyard today, work. One said “Yes,” and didn't go. And one said “No” and did go. You see, to be a disciple of Jesus is not a spectator sport. We're not here just to watch Jesus, or just to be impressed by Jesus, or even to be overwhelmed by the works of Jesus.
That's not what discipleship is all about. Discipleship is about work. It's about work in the vineyard of the kingdom of God. A...2023-04-2005 minThe Church of Saint Matthew - Saint Paul’s West Side09.27.2020 Gospel Matthew Chapter 21The Lord be with you.
And with your spirit
The gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ according to Matthew
Jesus said to the scribes and the Pharisees, "What do you think about this? There once was a man who had two sons. He went to one of them and he said, 'Go and work in the field in the vineyard today.' And the young man said, 'I will not go.' Later on he thought better, and he did go. The father went to the second son and said the same thing. And this so...2023-04-2001 minThe Church of Saint Matthew - Saint Paul’s West Side09.19.2020 HomilyToday we celebrate our patron's feast, St. Matthew. The gospel is a very short description of Matthew being called. Jesus ends up in Matthew's house. He ends up for a meal and He's there with His disciples, and sitting around the table are a whole variety of people, none of whom are the kind of people that your mother would want you to hang out with. Jesus is there with them. He's eating with them. He's sharing that time with them. And the Pharisees see this and it really wrecks their plan as to how life ought to happen...2023-04-2007 minThe Church of Saint Matthew - Saint Paul’s West Side09.19.2020 Gospel Matthew Chapter 9The Lord be with you.
And with your spirit
The gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ according to Matthew
As Jesus walked by, He saw a man named Matthew at the tax collector's booth. He said to him, "Follow me." Immediately Matthew got up and followed Jesus. Now later that day Jesus was in Matthew's house with His disciples, and they were at table. And joining them at table were tax collectors and prostitutes and extortionists and sinners, and the Pharisees saw this. And they said to Jesus' disciples, "Why does your master eat with ta...2023-04-2001 minThe Church of Saint Matthew - Saint Paul’s West Side09.13.2020 HomilyIn one sense, the gospel story is about justice. We have the king, the land owner who has lent money out to servants, expecting a return on that loan and had a right to call that loan in. And he did, he was settling accounts. And there was one servant who had borrowed an extensive amount of money, so much money that he was clearly unable to repay. And so the King was going to ask that justice be done, that this man and his wife and his children, his property, that they'd be sold and the proceeds go...2023-04-2006 minThe Church of Saint Matthew - Saint Paul’s West Side09.13.2020 Gospel Matthew Chapter 18The Lord be with you.
And with your spirit
The gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ according to Matthew
Peter approached Jesus and asked, "If my brother sins against me. How many times must I forgive him, as much as seven times?" And Jesus says, "Not seven times, but seventy-seven times." And this is why the kingdom of God can be compared to a king who went about settling accounts with his servants. One servant was brought in to him who owed a huge amount of money, far more than he was ever able to pa...2023-04-2002 minThe Church of Saint Matthew - Saint Paul’s West Side09.05.2020 HomilyThe gospel reading today and for the coming few weeks will be taken from the 18th chapter of St. Matthew's gospel. And the 18th chapter, if you will, lays out the order which should govern the life of the Christian community. It's in that chapter that Matthew records the teaching of Jesus about the community of faith, the church.
We learn very early in the life of the church in the second generation after the Death and Resurrection of Jesus, that the church is to be described in having four characteristics. The church is the church of J...2023-04-2009 minThe Church of Saint Matthew - Saint Paul’s West Side09.05.2020 Gospel Matthew Chapter 18The Lord be with you.
And with your spirit
The gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ according to Matthew
Jesus said to his disciples, "If your brother should do something wrong to you, go and have it out with him face to face. If he listens to you, you've gained your brother back. If not, then take two others and go to him, that those two may be witness to what goes between you. And if he will not listen to them, then bring the matter before the church. And if you will not listen to...2023-04-2001 minThe Church of Saint Matthew - Saint Paul’s West Side08.29.2020 HomilyThis passage of the gospel falls immediately after the passage that was part of the gospel of last week. Remember, last week Jesus comes into the region and He says, "What do people say that I am?" And then Peter confesses, "You are the Christ, the son of the living God." And then Jesus changes his name. He says, From now on you're Peter," and He gives to him the keys of the kingdom of heaven. And later that day or the next day, Jesus says, "Now what it means to be the Son of the living God is...2023-04-2009 minThe Church of Saint Matthew - Saint Paul’s West Side08.29.2020 Gospel Matthew Chapter 16The Lord be with you.
And with your spirit
The gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ according to Matthew
Jesus began to show his disciples that He must go to Jerusalem, and there He must suffer at the hands of the scribes and the Pharisees and the chief priests. That He must be killed. And that on the third day, He must raise from the dead. Now when Peter heard this, he said to Jesus, "Lord, this will never happen to you." Jesus said to him, "Get behind me, Satan. You're thinking the thoughts of hu...2023-04-2001 minThe Church of Saint Matthew - Saint Paul’s West Side08.22.2020 HomilyWhat we're reading is really an instruction for any one of us who has responsibility over a community, or over the work of others. It's really an instruction about what it is to be in the Christian spirit, a leader.
He tells Peter, "You have the power to bind and to loose." The leader is expected to focus on what we call the common good. That what holds all of us together, what all of us share together, that that be promoted, that that be advanced. And yet each and every one of us and every person...2023-04-2006 minThe Church of Saint Matthew - Saint Paul’s West Side08.22.2020 Gospel Saint Matthew Chapter 16The Lord be with you.
And with your spirit
The gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ according to Matthew
Jesus and His disciples came into the region of Cesarea Philippi. Jesus turned to them and He said, "What do people say about me? Who do they say that I am?" They said, "Some say you are John the Baptist come back from the dead. Others say, you're Elijah, or Jeremiah, or one of the prophets."
Jesus said, "But you, who do you say that I am?" Peter, spoke up and said, "You are Ch...2023-04-2001 minThe Church of Saint Matthew - Saint Paul’s West Side08.15.2020 HomilyThe gospel story today is about boundaries and about crossing boundaries. It's about life is not just either/or, life is really both/and. Matthew has a very difficult time in the community that he writes for. His community is located in places we know now as Syria, and the majority of the people in the community were Jews who were converted to Christianity. But a growing minority that was moving into that community were Gentiles who became Christian. And there was a tension between those of Jewish background and those of Gentile, and they found it very difficult...2023-04-2006 minThe Church of Saint Matthew - Saint Paul’s West Side08.15.2020 Gospel Matthew Chapter 15The Lord be with you.
And with your spirit
The gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ according to Matthew
Jesus withdrew into the region of Tyre and Sidon and a Canaanite woman came up to Him and said, "Lord have pity on me. My daughter is tormented by a demon." Jesus ignored her and He walked on the way. His disciples said to Him, "Get rid of her, tell her to go. She bothers us." Jesus said, "I have only come to call the children of the house of Israel."
Then the woman cam...2023-04-2001 minThe Church of Saint Matthew - Saint Paul’s West Side08.08.2020 HomilyThe story is told about a young boy who was being prepared to be a sailor. He was taken aboard the ship and the older sailors taught him all the skills that he needed, all the activity that he had to undertake if he was to be a good sailor. And one of the things he had to learn was to how to climb the mast of the ship up to the crow's nest on top.
And so one day he was doing that and everything was fine until he got about halfway up and he stopped...2023-04-1704 minThe Church of Saint Matthew - Saint Paul’s West Side08.08.2020 Gospel Matthew Chapter 14The gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ according to Matthew
After Jesus had fed the people, He made the disciples get in the boat and precede Him to the other side. Jesus stayed there to dismiss the people, and after He had dismissed them, He went up to the mountain by Himself to pray. Later that day He was alone on the mountain, but the ship was far from shore and was being tossed about in the waves for the wind was against it. Early in the morning, Jesus came to them walking on the water. And...2023-04-1702 minThe Church of Saint Matthew - Saint Paul’s West Side08.01.2020 HomilyI really want to talk to the first communion people tonight, and you adults can also listen in. Yes, you'll probably learn something. When you were preparing for First Communion, you were told the story of what Jesus did the night before he died. Oh, He gathered his disciples together at a supper. We call it the last supper, and he took bread and he broke the bread and he gave it to them and he said, "Take this, eat this, this is my body." And then he said, "Whenever you do this, do this in memory of me."2023-04-1704 minThe Church of Saint Matthew - Saint Paul’s West Side08.01.2020 Gospel Matthew Chapter 14The gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ according to Matthew.
When Jesus heard that John the Baptist had been killed, he left the place he was and you went to a deserted place by crossing the water. When people heard what he had done, they followed after him on foot. And when he disembarked from the boat he saw this large crowd of people, and he had compassion on them. And he spent the rest of the day hearing those who were ill. His disciples came to him and said, "We are in a deserted place and...2023-04-1701 minThe Church of Saint Matthew - Saint Paul’s West Side07.26.2020 Gospel Matthew Chapter 13Jesus said, the kingdom of God is like a treasure planted in a field, which a workman finds and then buries it. Going his way, he sells all that he has, and then he buys the field. Or the kingdom of God is like a merchant in search of precious pearls. And when he finds a truly wonderful pearl, with great joy he goes and sells everything and he buys the pearl. Then Jesus said to his disciples, do you understand this? And they said, yes. And Jesus said, every scribe who is educated in the kingdom of God...2023-04-1701 minThe Church of Saint Matthew - Saint Paul’s West Side07.19.2020 HomilyThe 13th chapter of St. Matthew's gospel contains a series of parables about the kingdom of God. And this is the first of those parables, the story of the wheat and the weeds. The word that is in the Greek text for the weeds really does not mean just ordinary, everyday garden variety weeds. It refers to a special kind of weed, which is called Darnell. Darnell is a pernicious weed. It's a poisonous weed. And Darnell looks almost exactly like wheat. In fact, you can't tell the difference until you come near harvest and the wheat will have...2023-04-1606 minThe Church of Saint Matthew - Saint Paul’s West Side07.19.2020 Gospel Matthew Chapter 13The Lord be with you, the gospel of the Lord, Jesus Christ according to Matthew.
Jesus said, the kingdom of God is like a man who planted good seed in his field. Then he went to bed and during the night an enemy came and sewed weeds throughout that good seed. His servants came to him and said, did you not sew good seed? How is it that there are weeds now growing in the field? And the man said, this must've been done by the work of an enemy. And his servant said, well, then let...2023-04-1601 minThe Church of Saint Matthew - Saint Paul’s West Side07.12.2020 HomilyThe gospel reading today comes from the very beginning of the 13th chapter of St. Matthew's gospel. There are seven parables that are found in that 13th chapter.The whole chapter is really a series of Jesus teaching in parables. This parable is the one that leads it off and we get a hint about what all of this is about. In the opening words, Jesus says, pay attention and listen. Then he tells the parable and he ends but saying now, if you have ears to hear listen. What he's asking of his disciples is that they open...2023-04-1604 minThe Church of Saint Matthew - Saint Paul’s West Side07.12.2020 Gospel Matthew Chapter 13The Lord be with you the Gospel of the Lord, Jesus Christ according to Matthew.
Jesus left the house and went down to the shore by the sea and a great multitude came upon him and pressed against him. And so he had to step into a boat and put out a bit and then sit down while the crowd, the multitude gathered on the shore. And then he taught them. He taught them in parables. So listen now and pay attention. A sower went out to sow seed. Some seed fell on the walking path and...2023-04-1601 minThe Church of Saint Matthew - Saint Paul’s West Side07.05.2020 HomilyJesus uses images that his audience would readily understand and experience. He uses images of agriculture. He uses images of fishing. He, he uses images that relate immediately to the people who are, who are listening to him. And this is an agricultural image that he chooses today. He says, come to me, take my yoke upon your shoulders. Learn from me. I am meek and humble of heart. The yolk was made of wood. It was carved to fit over the neck and the shoulders of the animal. It prevented pain and discomfort. The word yoke was a...2023-04-1604 minThe Church of Saint Matthew - Saint Paul’s West Side07.05.2020 Gospel Matthew Chapter 11The Lord be with you , the gospel of the Lord, Jesus Christ. According to Matthew.
Jesus raised his voice and said, I give you thanks, father, Lord of heaven and earth, where you have not revealed these mysteries to the wise and to the learned, but to the mirror list of children. That is indeed your wish. All that is has been placed into my hands by the father. No one knows the son except the father. And no one knows the father except the son and those to whom the sun wishes to reveal them. Come...2023-04-1601 minThe Church of Saint Matthew - Saint Paul’s West Side06.28.2020 HomilyIn Today's gospel reading, Jesus has really two messages for his disciples. The first message is that their faith must rest in him and everything else must become secondary. That being a disciple of Jesus is not a hobby. Being a disciple of Jesus is not just something you do when it's convenient, but that the word of the Lord is central in your life. And in all relationships, that word in a sense, governs those relationships that word lays down the principles by which those relationships take place.
The second thing he is saying to his d...2023-04-1602 minThe Church of Saint Matthew - Saint Paul’s West Side06.28.2020 Gospel Matthew Chapter 10The Lord be with you, the gospel of the Lord, Jesus Christ according to Matthew.
Jesus said anyone who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me. Anyone who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. Anyone who does not take up his cross and follow after me is not worthy of me. Whoever find his life will lose it. And those who are willing to lose their life for my sake will find it. The one who welcomes you welcomes me. And the one who welcomes me...2023-04-1601 minThe Church of Saint Matthew - Saint Paul’s West Side06.21.2020 HomilyThe gospel. According to Saint Matthew comes from a community that is rather divided. Part of the community is Jews who've converted to Christianity. And part of the community is non Jews. Gentiles who have become Christian. And Matthew's job is to try to put these two groups together and that's not working very well. Also there's persecution that is taking place. And so very often just the disagreement within the community makes people more vulnerable to the persecution. So chapter 10 of St. Matthew's gospel is meant to address those who are expected to lead in this community that...2023-04-1605 minThe Church of Saint Matthew - Saint Paul’s West Side06.21.2020 Gospel Matthew Chapter 10The Lord be with you, the gospel of the Lord, Jesus Christ according to Matthew.
Jesus said to them, fear, no one, there is nothing concealed that will not be revealed. And there is nothing that is secret. That will not be proclaimed. If you hear me in the darkness, speak it out in the light. And if you hear whispers, shout those from the house top, do not be afraid. Fear only the one was able to kill both body and spirit. Do not fear the one who merely can kill the body and not harm t...2023-04-1601 minThe Church of Saint Matthew - Saint Paul’s West Side06.14.2020 HomilyToday, we celebrate the feast of the body and the blood of Christ. In St. John's gospel Jesus gives this very, very long teaching about the Eucharist. And there's something about that teaching and the sixth chapter that is very different from the teaching that is given in Matthew, Mark, and Luke. You see in Matthew, Mark, and Luke, and the story of the last supper, Jesus says, this is my body. Take it. This is my blood. Drink it.
In John. Jesus says, unless you eat the flesh of the son of man and drink his b...2023-04-1607 minThe Church of Saint Matthew - Saint Paul’s West Side06.14.2020 Gospel John Chapter 6The Lord be with you, the gospel of the Lord, Jesus Christ according to John.
Jesus said, I am the bread of heaven. He who eats my flesh will live forever. And the flesh I give is for the salvation of the world, his hero said, how was it possible? Where this man to give us his flesh? Jesus says, unless you eat the flesh of the son of man and drink his blood, you can have no life in you. Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood live in me and I live in...2023-04-1601 minThe Church of Saint Matthew - Saint Paul’s West Side06.07.2020 HomilyToday is the feast of the, of the Trinity. It's the feast in which we acknowledge the inner life of God. In all the other celebrations through the year, we, we praise God for the external things that God has done in calling us in saving us in sending forth his son and pouring forth his spirit. It's all about us. Now this is the one Sunday of the year. When we, we praise God for nothing having to do with us, but that powerful inner life by which father, son, and spirit live for all eternity.
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God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son. So that those who believe in him may have eternal life. He did not send his son into the world to condemn the world, But that the world may be saved. Whoever does, whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe in him is already condemned or not believing in the name of the only son of God.
The gospel of the L...2023-04-1600 minThe Church of Saint Matthew - Saint Paul’s West Side05.31.2020 Homily2023-04-1605 minThe Church of Saint Matthew - Saint Paul’s West Side05.31.2020 Gospel John Chapter 20The Lord be with you. The gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ according to John.
It was that very same day, the first day of the week. The disciples were gathered in the upper room, and the doors and windows were closed for fear of the authorities. Then Jesus came and he stood in their midst, and he said to them, "Peace be to you." Then he showed them his hands and his side. When the disciples saw him, they were filled with joy, and once again he said, "Peace be with you." Then he breathed on t...2023-04-1601 minThe Church of Saint Matthew - Saint Paul’s West Side05.24.2020 HomilyToday, we celebrate the feast of the Ascension of the Lord. The Ascension is really not so much that physical movement of Jesus going to heaven. It's the culminating moment of Jesus' life here on earth, in which, in which he is established as King of the universe, one could just as easily call this feast, the feast of Christ, the King that he ascends to the father's right hand. And from that point on, he has been placed into his hands all that is. But those disciples, they were called to the mountain, just outside of Jerusalem. The...2023-04-1609 minThe Church of Saint Matthew - Saint Paul’s West Side05.24.2020 Gospel Matthew Chapter 28The Lord be with you, the gospel of the Lord, Jesus Christ. According to Matthew.
The disciples of Jesus went to the mountain to which Jesus called him. And when they saw Jesus, they fell down on their knees and worshiped him. Although some of them continued to doubt as Jesus approached them. He said, all authority in heaven and on earth is given to me. And I tell you, go forth proclaim the good news to all people make disciples, baptize them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy...2023-04-1601 minThe Church of Saint Matthew - Saint Paul’s West Side05.17.2020 HomilyThe 12th to the 17th chapter of St. John's gospel records. The not only the events, but more than that, the words spoken by Jesus on the occasion of the last supper. And we need to put ourselves in that context, in order to, to hear those words, the way the disciples heard them, the disciples were confused. Some of them were afraid. Some of them were afraid for Jesus. And some of them were afraid from themselves and Jesus wanted to make it very sure that they understood how deeply he loved them. It was his, if you...2023-04-1604 minThe Church of Saint Matthew - Saint Paul’s West Side05.17.2020 Gospel John Chapter 14The Lord be with you. The gospel of the Lord, Jesus Christ according to John.
Jesus said to his disciples, if you love me, you will keep my commandment. And then I will ask the father and he will give you another advocate. The spirit of truth, the world does not accept him because the world neither sees him nor knows him, but you know him because he is with you and he is within you. I will not leave you orphans. I will come back to you in a short time. The world will not see...2023-04-1601 minThe Church of Saint Matthew - Saint Paul’s West Side05.10.2020 HomilyThe words that Jesus speaks in the gospel reading this morning are part of that instruction. That final instruction, that final teaching that he gives to his disciples on the night before he dies. And we need to put it into a context. The evening began with Jesus, taking off his outer garment and putting a towel around his waist and going one by one to his disciples and washing their feet. And when he had done that, he said, do you understand what I have done? You call me Lord and master. And that is truly what I...2023-04-1606 minThe Church of Saint Matthew - Saint Paul’s West Side05.10.2020 Gospel John Chapter 14The Lord be with you, the gospel of the Lord, Jesus Christ. According to John.
Jesus said to his disciples, do not let your hearts be troubled. You do have faith in God. Put faith in me as well. In my father's house, there are many dwelling places. If that were not true, I could not tell you. I am going to prepare a place for you. I am going to prepare a place for you. And then I will come back and I will take you with me so that where I am you too, maybe...2023-04-1601 minThe Church of Saint Matthew - Saint Paul’s West Side05.03.2020 Homily2023-04-1604 minThe Church of Saint Matthew - Saint Paul’s West Side05.03.2020 Gospel John Chapter 102023-04-1601 minThe Church of Saint Matthew - Saint Paul’s West Side04.26.2020 Homily2023-04-1605 minThe Church of Saint Matthew - Saint Paul’s West Side04.26.2020 Gospel Luke Chapter 242023-04-1603 minThe Church of Saint Matthew - Saint Paul’s West Side04.19.2020 Homily2023-04-1604 minThe Church of Saint Matthew - Saint Paul’s West Side04.19.2020 Gospel John Chapter 202023-04-1602 minThe Church of Saint Matthew - Saint Paul’s West Side04.12.2020 Homily2023-04-1606 minThe Church of Saint Matthew - Saint Paul’s West Side04.12.2020 Gospel John Chapter 202023-04-1601 minThe Church of Saint Matthew - Saint Paul’s West Side04.11.2020 Homily2023-04-1604 minThe Church of Saint Matthew - Saint Paul’s West Side04.11.2020 Gospel Matthew Chapter 282023-04-1601 minThe Church of Saint Matthew - Saint Paul’s West Side04.09.2020 Homily2023-04-1603 minThe Church of Saint Matthew - Saint Paul’s West Side04.09.2020 Gospel John Chapter 13Holy Thursday 2020
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