Easter Sunday – Year A  April 16, 2017  Saint Cecilia Catholic Community Palm Springs CA   Acts 10:34A; 37-34 Psalm 118:1-2;6-7;21-23 Colossians 3:1-4 John 20:1-9  Rev. David Justin Lynch  + In the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, Amen.  When I was growing up in the 1960’s and 70’s, the news reports were full of all kinds of reports about “liberation”. Women’s Liberation. Black Liberation. Asian Liberation. Native American Liberation. Mexican Liberation. Even Men’s…

        Some people have told me that “church should not be involved in politics”. By that, they often mean that clergy should not address controversial economic issues from the pulpit or in conversation with parishioners.  They want church to be a sterile place, devoid of anything that might disturb their ideological comfort zone. In a Christian church of any denomination, however, that is not an option. One cannot explicate the teachings of Jesus without addressing public policy issues, simply because…

FIRST SUNDAY IN LENT February 14, 2015 Saint Cecilia Catholic Community Rev. David Justin Lynch Deuteronomy 26:4-10 Psalm 91:1-2;10-15 Romans 10:8-13 Luke 4:1-13 + In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, AMEN. If you’ve ever watched the television program “American Greed”, you know what temptation looks like, and you’ve seen the devil at work. Financial fraudsters tempt otherwise honest people into becoming involved in schemes to cheat people out of their money…

ASH WEDNESDAY – YEAR C  February 10, 2016 7:00 PM  Saint Cecilia Catholic Community  Rev. David Justin Lynch Joel 2:12-18 Psalm 51:3-6; 12-14;17  2 Corinthians 5:20-6:2 Matthew 6:1-6; 16-18   + In the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, AMEN.       I am an extrovert. I enjoy meeting people and interacting with them. I am one of those individuals who is not scared of speaking or singing in front of a crowd. Ash…

FIFTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME February 07, 2016 Saint Cecilia Catholic Community Rev. David Justin Lynch Isaiah 6:1-2A; 3-8 Psalm 138:1-8 I Corinthians 15:3-8; 11 Luke 5:1-11 + In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, AMEN. [Sing] “Have it your way, have it your way.” You probably recognize that as the Burger King Song. When sung to people in America, it affirms that we live in a society that places a great…

FOURTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME January 31, 2015 Saint Cecilia Catholic Community Rev. David Justin Lynch Jeremiah 1:4-5;17-19  Psalm 71:1-6;15-17 I Corinthians 13:4-13 Luke 4:21-30        + In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, AMEN.        Last week, we heard Jesus announcing his mission statement, proclaiming that God anointed Him to bring glad tidings to the poor, liberty to captives, recovery of sight to the blind, and freedom to the oppressed. Like…

THIRD SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME January 24, 2015 10:30 AM Saint Cecilia Catholic Community, Palm Springs, CA Rev. David Justin Lynch Nehemiah 8:2-4A;5-6;8-10 Psalm 19:8-10;15 1 Corinthians 12:12-14;27  Luke 1:1-4;4:14-21        + In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, AMEN.        One of the things the three Abrahamic faiths have in common is that we are peoples with books. The Jews have the Old Testament, Christians the new Testament, and Muslims the…

FEAST OF BLESSED MARTIN LUTHER KING January 18, 2016 Saint Cecilia Catholic Community Rev. David Justin Lynch Genesis 37:14b-20 Psalm 77:12-21 Ephesians 6:10-20 Luke 6:27-36        + In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, AMEN.        I grew up in Greenwich, Connecticut during the nineteen fifties and sixties. When I was a very young boy, probably about five years of age, my mother and I were on the train to Boston, Massachusetts….