For the second Sunday in the season of Lent, Rev. Cari tackled the paradoxical Gospel text of the day, Mark 8:31-38, in which Jesus says several difficult – even inconceivable – things. So it’s little wonder that she opened with a reference to the trio of Fezzik, Inigo and Vizzini in Rob Reiner’s film The Princess Bride.

However, she didn’t stay in comedy mode forever… because the Dr. Eileen Campbell-Reed “theme” for the day that she lifted up was “care for loss and grief.” If you are in need of a guided meditation in which you acknowledge all your losses of the past few years, and offer them to be held by Jesus, then this is the sermon for you.