The Musings of Jeff Doucette

  When it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and the doors of the house where the disciples had met were locked for fear of the authorities, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you.” After he said this, he showed them his hands and his side. Then the disciples rejoiced when they saw the Lord. Jesus said to them again, “Peace ...

Each year I love to write a fictional monologue for the Easter Sunrise service loosely based on the Easter Sunday scripture passage but rooted in my faithful imagination. While there is no evidence that Nicodemus was the “Other disciple”…well there was no evidence he was not. So having preached on him this Lent…I decided to play with his story...

I remember when I was first ordained and working with a priest back in New Brunswick in a French parish. He asked me to do Good Friday. It was the only celebration of the Three Days I got to lead. I was a bit bitter…I did not want to just sit in a seat…I wanted to throw myself in to the services as a young priest. I wanted to taste the symbols and story of that sacred movement from Maundy T...

Last night we entered into the sacred Three Days from Maundy Thursday to Easter Night. It was the next movement in the Jesus story that began on Palm Sunday with the entrance into Jerusalem.

At sunset the world entered into a different space and time at the invitation of the church. To come together in three separate moments to share the story that shapes us as Chri...

 

Part of my writing and personal growth is leading a morning prayer and evening prayer reflection online for CASA : An Experiment in Doing Church Online (a FaceBook page anyone can join). I offer you what I shared yesterday morning with my CASA friends:

Monday Jan 22nd Morning Prayer

 

In 2007 I left church ...

Now after John was arrested, Jesus came to Galilee, proclaiming the good news of God, and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God has come near; repent, and believe in the good news.” As Jesus passed along the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and his brother Andrew casting a net into the sea—for they were fishermen. And Jesus said to them, “Follow ...

   We will not hide them from their children; we will tell to the coming generation the glorious deeds of the LORD, and his might, and the wonders that he has done. He established a decree in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our ancestors to teach to their children; that the next generation might know them, the children yet unborn, and rise up and tell them to their children, so that they...

Matthew ch 10:vs 40-42

40 “Whoever welcomes you welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes the one who sent me. 41 Whoever welcomes a prophet in the name of a prophet will receive a prophet’s reward; and whoever welcomes a righteous person in the name of a righteous person will receive the reward of the righteous; 42 and whoever gives even a cup of cold wat...