On the fifth Sunday in Lent, we enter the culmination on the wandering journey. We’ve been praying, fasting, and offering ourselves. And we are once again reminded that God makes all things new. In the Hebrew scriptures God promises this newness. In the gospel story from John this Sunday, Mary anticipates this newness, anointing Jesus’ feet with costly perfume in preparation for the day of his burial. Saint Paul recalls his transformation from the persecutor Saul into an apostle. We don’t know what the future will hold, based on the past, good or bad. God is doing a new thing. God’s newness in each person rises daily from the mire of trespasses and sins, from apathy and indifference, from violence and war, from degradation and fear. We rise. God’s people always rise.
Guest Musician | Sunday, April 6
We welcome Åshilld Henriksen, principal horn for the Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra for her entire professional career. Åshilld, studying at Musikhochschule Carl Maria von Weber in Dresden, is an active recitalist and chamber musician in Sweden. She will play Mozart’s Andante Cantabile from the Horn Concerto, K.495, accompanied by pianist, Mozart scholar, and FELC member, Dr. Mary Robbins.