"2nd Sunday of Eastertide" - Deacon Cindy Miller

Deacon Cindy Miller preaches on why the risen Christ's first words to his frightened disciples were "Peace be with you," and why he had to say them more than once. Drawing from John 20, Acts 2, and 1 Peter 1, she traces a thread from that locked upper room through Peter's bold Pentecost sermon to his letter written thirty years later, showing how even those closest to the events needed constant reminding of what they had witnessed. Cindy shares a moving encounter with a Liberian man at the hospital whose faith was forged through fourteen years of civil war, and reflects on how Scripture, prayer, worship, Eucharist, and Christian community keep the truth of the resurrection in front of us when the world tries to pull it away. Holy Trinity Silicon Valley is an Anglican church in Palo Alto, CA, and a member of the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) and the Diocese of Churches for the Sake of Others (C4SO). Learn more at holytrinitysv.org