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Quinquagesima ’12 – Luke 18:31-43

St. Paul’s second epistle to Corinth confesses with great boldness how our God loves us. He is patient and kind. He does not boast or envy. He suffers all and endures all. Knowing this love is difficult. Our lives rarely reflect the perfect love of our God. We must hear and learn it again. Thus, today begins our final preparations for the blessed season of Lent. We will see and know the love of our God most graciously shown in His holy Passion. He opens our deprived eyes to see once again His death for us. From this love, we learn how to love God and to love each other.

Epiphany 3 ’12 – Matthew 8:1-13

*Apologies for the atrocious sound quality. We had a power outage on Saturday (no audio) and Sunday’s connection was faulty. If you can suffer through the noise, there’s a sermon underneath.*

Today’s Gospel is a combination of two pericopes that marvelously reveal the mercy of Jesus in glorious epiphany. The leper suffers the utter corruption of his being. The Centurion’s servant is paralyzed and unable to do and act according to his creation. We understand both conditions. We suffer the corruption of original sin. We are paralyzed in our inability and inaction towards God and neighbor. Jesus comes and heals both by his merciful touch and his recreating word. This is God’s love—He shows mercy while we are yet leperous and paralyzed sinners and redeems us.