Fifth Sunday in Lent by The Rev. Martin Elfert

Lessons: Isaiah 43:16-21 Philippians 3:4b-14 John 12:1-8 Psalm 126   Do you have a favourite smell? An odour that just delights you when it makes it to your nose? I have several smells that I really like. I love the smell that the earth makes when rain falls upon it on a hot day, theContinue reading “Fifth Sunday in Lent by The Rev. Martin Elfert”

The Flowers in the Desert + Fifth Sunday in Lent by The Rev. Esme J. R. Culver

Lessons: Jeremiah 31:31-34 Psalm 51:1-13 Hebrews 5:5-10 John 12:20-33 By the Fifth Sunday of Lent, the shadows of the cross spread like cold ash across the wilderness landscape…..and yet, at this same time……desert wildflowers are in bloom.  At this same time, the floor of the desert becomes, for one brief moment carpeted with the colorContinue reading “The Flowers in the Desert + Fifth Sunday in Lent by The Rev. Esme J. R. Culver”

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