An Episcopal Sermon: April 6, 2025
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Subject of Sermon: Jesus, but a few days before his passion, is at supper with Lazarus, Martha, and Mary when Mary anoints his feet with costly ointment.
Sermon By: The Rev. Karen Cuffie at The Episcopal Church in Almaden.
Today's Gospel Reading: John 12:1-8
“ Six days before the Passover Jesus came to Bethany, the home of Lazarus,
whom he had raised from the dead. There they gave a dinner for him.
Martha served, and Lazarus was one of those at the table with him. Mary
took a pound of costly perfume made of pure nard, anointed Jesus' feet,
and wiped them with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of
the perfume. But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples (the one who was
about to betray him), said, "Why was this perfume not sold for three
hundred denarii and the money given to the poor?" (He said this not
because he cared about the poor, but because he was a thief; he kept the
common purse and used to steal what was put into it.) Jesus said, "Leave
her alone. She bought it so that she might keep it for the day of my burial.
You always have the poor with you, but you do not always have me. ”
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