FEAST OF CHRIST THE KING – YEAR B November 22, 2015 Saint Cecilia Catholic Community Palm Springs, CA Rev. Dcn. David Justin Lynch II Chronicles 5:1-2;11-14 Psalm 150 Colossians 3:12-17  John 18:33b-37 +In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, AMEN.        When we think of kings, we think of sovereign rulers, someone in charge of a country who rules autocratically by decree. Living in a country where there is a king gives…

THIRTY-THIRD SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME – YEAR B November 15, 2015 Saint Cecilia Catholic Community Rev. Dcn. David Justin Lynch Daniel 12:1-3 Psalm 16:5;5-11 Hebrews 10:11-14;18 Mark 13:24-32 + In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, AMEN.        Today’s Gospel reading is a bit scary. It’s what’s called an apocalypse, what the dictionary describes is a destruction of the world on a truly catastrophic scale.  Imagine the wind and water of Hurricane…

THIRTY SECOND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME – YEAR B November 08, 2015 Saint Cecilia Catholic Community Rev. Dcn. David Justin Lynch 1 Kings 17:10-16 Psalm 146:7-10 Hebrews 9:24-28 Mark 12:38-44 + In the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, AMEN.        Today’s readings are about generosity and trusting God. Western  Christianity,  both  Catholic  and  Protestant,  share  a  two thousand year history in liberating humanity from the oppression of poverty which remains a work…

ALL SAINTS DAY November 01, 2015 Saint Cecilia Catholic Community Rev. Dcn. David Justin Lynch Revelations 7:2-4, 9-14 Psalm 24:1-6 1 John 1:1-3 Matthew 5:1-12A        +In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, AMEN. If you ask many people who were not raised in some variation of the Catholic tradition, what All Saints Day is, you’d likely be asked, “What’s that?” The short answer is, today is the day we honor those…

THIRTIETH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME YEAR B October 25, 2015 Saint Cecilia Catholic Community Rev. Dcn. David Justin Lynch Jeremiah 31:7-9 Psalm 126:1-6 Hebrews 5:1-6 Mark 10:46-52 + In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, AMEN.        When my wife, Beeper, and I sit in front of the television watching a baseball game or the news, which is most of what we watch together, one of us may want to change the channel…

TWENTY-NINTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME – YEAR B October 18, 2015 Saint Cecilia Catholic Community Rev. Dcn. David Justin Lynch Isaiah 53:10-11 Psalm 33:4-5;19-22 Hebrews 4:14-16 Mark 10:35-45        + In the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, AMEN.        Those of us who become clergy do so for a variety of reasons. We are human. We are sinners. Because of that, not unexpectedly, some of us seek a career in the church…

TWENTY-SEVENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME – YEAR B October 04, 2015 Saint Cecilia Catholic Community Rev. Dcn. David Justin Lynch Genesis 2:18-24  Hebrews 2:9-11 Psalm 128 Mark 10:2-12        + In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, AMEN.        This week’s lectionary is very tempting for a preacher to condemn divorce and justify the traditional position of the Roman Church that those who divorce and remarry should not receive Holy Communion. It…

FEAST OF SAINT MICHAEL & ALL ANGELS September 27, 2015 (transferred from September 29) Saint Cecilia Catholic Community Rev. Dcn. David Justin Lynch Revelation 12:7-12 Psalm 138:1-5 Colossians 1:9-20 John 1:47-51 + In the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. AMEN.        Angels are everywhere. In the Bible, angels are ubiquitous from beginning to end, from Genesis to Revelation. You may recall that when Adam and Eve left Eden, God placed an angel…