Christ Episcopal Church The Rev. Diana L. Wilcox

Pentecost Sunday – May 28, 2023: May God’s words be spoken, may God’s words be heard.  Amen. Happy Pentecost Everyone!  While we are resurrection people, and we always carry Easter in our hearts, Eastertide is now over, and today we celebrate one of the most important Sundays of the Church. In fact, Pentecost & Easter…

May 21, 2023: May God’s words be spoken, may God’s words be heard.  Amen. Happy Easter! Now you’all know by now that my favorite of the four canonical gospels is the Gospel of Luke.  We didn’t read from that today, and likely won’t hear much from it until we move into Year C in Advent…

May 7, 2023: May God’s words be spoken, may God’s words be heard.  Amen. Happy Easter everyone! I attended a funeral yesterday for the husband of Mother Lauren Ackland, the long-serving Rector of Grace Episcopal in Madison, where I first served as a seminarian.  George Hayman, or Mr. Lauren Ackland, as he sometimes referred to…

April 30, 2023: May God’s words be spoken, may God’s words be heard.  Amen. Happy Easter everyone! Well, if you haven’t figured it out by all the readings we have heard this morning, the Fourth Sunday of Easter is always Good Shepherd Sunday.  Now, Jesus as a shepherd is not a new thing to us,…

Easter Sunday – April 9, 2023: May God’s words be spoken, may God’s words be heard.  Amen. Alleluia! Christ is risen! He is risen indeed!  Alleluia! Dang, that never gets old.  And perhaps that is why you are here. You already know the story – just as with Christmas.  And yet, here you are.  Now,…

    Maundy Thursday – April 6, 2023: May God’s words be spoken, may God’s words be heard.  Amen. Tonight we begin.  Tonight we enter into a three day service – the Paschal Triduum.  And as I note each year, there will be no dismissal at the end of the services tonight and tomorrow night…