Category: Sermons
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Corpus Christi 2024
May I speak to you in the power of the living God: Source of all being, Eternal Word, and Holy Spirit. Before I get underway, … wow … I am so incredibly grateful for your presences here that if I weren’t somewhat stunned into incomprehension, I’d probably be crying too hard right now to speak.…
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Events
May 30, 2024: Solemn Evensong with Clothing of Novices
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Advent 1B: The End of the World As We Know It
29 November 2020 Isaiah 64:1-9 · 1 Corinthians 1:3-9 · Mark 13:24-37 Our religious practice has a pretty tenuous relationship with historical time. Of course we know that centuries separate the Exodus and the Resurrection, but in liturgical time, they happen on the same day. Likewise manna in the wilderness and the Eucharist, the Suffering…
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Proper 25A
May I speak to you in the name of the living God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit The last time I had the pleasure to speak with you, I cited today’s Gospel: “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.” “You shall…
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Propio 21A (Español): Cambia de Parecer
En nombre del Padre, y del hijo, y del espíritu Santo. Amen. Buenos Dias, y muchas gracias a todos por permitirme hablar con ustedes esta mañana en su iglesia tan hermosa. Desde el Marzo, es la primera vez en que estaba DENTRO de una iglesia. Gracias tambien, por Zoom y feisbuk, pero no es lo…
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Proper 21A: Change Your Mind
In the name of our triune God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, Amen. Good morning, thank you for having me here, and allowing me to speak with you this morning, in your beautiful sanctuary—the first sanctuary I’ve been in since March, and it feels nice. I moved to Boston for Graduate School in 2001. In…
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Proper 21A: There Would Be No Power
27 September 2020 Ezekiel 18:1-4, 25-32 · Philippians 2:1-13 · Matthew 21:23-32 By this point in the Gospel, Jesus knows he doesn’t have much time left. Just yesterday, he made his (more or less) triumphal entry into Jerusalem on the back of a donkey, drove out the money-changers from the temple, insulted them, overturned their…
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Proper 18A
Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, O Lord, my strength and my redeemer. Whether or not we personally are very good at it, I imagine that most of us understand that one of the messages that Jesus shared with us was that of forgiveness,…
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Wednesday of Proper 12A
In the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit: I can get pretty cranky about the uses of my name. A prime example of what makes me cranky is in Margaret Atwood’s novel, or the recent television series based on it: The Handmaids Tale. In this story, “The Marthas” is a collective title for…
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Proper 11A
In the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit: Today’s readings, in conjunction with the current state of our nation and world, brought a quotation immediately to mind. Drawing on another well known phrase, this version comes to us from the great repository of theological wisdom that is the television show Buffy the Vampire…