Advent: A Season of Hope
November 30, 2025
1st Sunday of Advent Year A
Isaiah 2:1-5; Romans 13:11-14; Matthew 24:36-44; Psalm 122
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Sister Karen Kapell speaks with Mildred “Tinker” Schuman, a tribal member of the Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians as part of a ceremony on October 31, 2025 that celebrated the historic land transfer. (Courtesy of Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration)
Bishop James Powers, John D. Johnson, Sr., Tribal President of the Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians, and Sister Sue Ernster pose in front of the Marywood property which was returned to the Tribe on October 31, 2025. (Courtesy of Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration)
1 Adam Borneman, “The Three C’s of the Apocalypse: Proclaiming God’s Advent as Clash,
Comfort, Calling,” Journal for Preachers: Advent 2025, Volume XLIX, Number 1, The Ministry
Collaborative: 2025, 21, 22, 24.
2 Robin Washington, “Catholic nuns in Wisconsin return land bought in 1966 to an Indigenous
tribe,” NPR Weekend Edition Saturday, Nov. 29, 2025. Accessed 11/29/2025:
https://www.npr.org/2025/11/29/nx-s1-5615173/catholic-nuns-in-wisconsin-return-land-
bought-in-1966-to-an-indigenous-tribe
A Call to Shrewdness
September 21, 2025
15th Sunday after Pentecost, Proper 20 – Year C
Luke 16:1-13
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1 Amy-Jill Levine and Ben Witherington III, “The Parable of the Dishonest Manager and the
Trapped Master,” The Gospel of Luke, Cambridge University Press (Cambridge: 2018), 444.
If You Can’t Stand the Heat…
September 7, 2025
13th Sunday after Pentecost, Proper 18 – Year C
Luke 14:25-33
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Photographed by Cosmos Mariner, May 15, 2023
1 Emilie Townes, “Luke 14: 25-33, Theological Perspective”, editors David L. Bartlett and
Barbara Brown Taylor, Feasting on the Word— Year C, Volume 4: Season after Pentecost 2
(Propers 17-Reign of Christ) (Feasting on the Word: Year C). Presbyterian Publishing
Corporation, 2010. Kindle edition. Page 129 · Location 1716, Page 130 · Location 1723.
2 Catherine Meeks, The Night is Long but Light Comes in the Morning: Meditations for Racial
Healing. Church Publishing Incorporated, 2022. Kindle edition. Page 19 · Location 217.
3 Bernard Mokam, “Joseph McNeil, Young Spark in a Civil Rights Battle, Dies at 83,” New York
Times, September 5, 2025. Accessed 09/06/2025:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/us/joseph-mcneil-dead.html.
Where is the Love?
August 31, 2025
12th Sunday after Pentecost, Proper 14 – Year C
Hebrews 13:1-8, 15-16
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1 Will.i.am and Ron Fair, “Where is the Love?”, sung by the Black Eyed Peas, featuring Justin
Timberlake, Website: Genius. Accessed 08/29/2025: https://genius.com/Black-eyed-peas-
where-is-the-love-lyrics.
2 Gray Temple, Jr., “Hebrews 13: 1-8, 15-16: Theological Perspective,” editors David L. Bartlett
and Barbara Brown Taylor, Feasting on the Word— Year C, Volume 4: Season after Pentecost
2 (Propers 17-Reign of Christ) (Feasting on the Word: Year C). Presbyterian Publishing
Corporation, 2010. Kindle edition. Page 52 · Location 659, Page 52 · Location 662, Page 52 · Location 664, Page 52 · Location 666.
