Easter Sunday – April 20, 2025: The Lord is risen! He is risen indeed! Alleluia! And “Χριστός Ανέστη!” “Αληθώς Ανέστη” “Καλό Πάσχα!” “Christ is Risen!” “Truly [he is] risen!” “Happy Easter!” to all our Eastern Orthodox sisters and brothers in Christ, who today are also celebrating Easter Sunday. This doesn’t happen all the time, that we…
April 13, 2025 – Palm Sunday: May God’s words be spoken, may God’s words be heard. Amen. Somehow, I feel like this Palm Sunday feels more real than ever before. But before we get to that, I need to remind everyone that it is in fact Palm Sunday. We shouldn’t be reading the passion gospel…
March 23, 2025: May God’s words be spoken, may God’s words be heard. Amen. Today The Episcopal Church does a thing. We usually go right along with the Revised Common Lectionary – the assigned readings for a Sunday followed by Lutherans, Presbyterians, Methodists, and a whole lot of others, and also the Roman Catholic Church…
February 23, 2025: May God’s words be spoken, may God’s words be heard. Amen. “Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you.” Seriously Jesus? I mean, seriously? Have you SEEN what is going on here in the US? Sometimes I can imagine…
February 16, 2025: May God’s words be spoken, may God’s words be heard. Amen. Sometimes it seems the scriptures assigned for reading on a given Sunday are so perfectly suited for the times in which we live – and today, that is most definitely so. Just this past Wednesday, some fellow who owns a company…
February 2, 2025 – Candlemas: May God’s words be spoken, may God’s words be heard. Amen. “Two turtledoves, and a ground hog who sees his shadow.” What, not right? Well, at any rate, Merry Christmas everyone! And you thought all that was over weeks ago when those crazy wild guys from the East showed up. …
January 26, 2025: May God’s words be spoken, may God’s words be heard. Amen. Heard any good sermons this past week…or at least a snippet of one? I have no doubt that most, if not all, of you did. And today, we heard the beginning of another one, though we only got the opening sentence…
January 19, 2025: May God’s words be spoken, may God’s words be heard. Amen. Eleven years ago this very day, on January 19th 2014, I stood in this pulpit for the very first time as your Rector. Neither you all, nor I, could never have known what was to be when we first began to…
January 12, 2025: May God’s words be spoken, may God’s words be heard. Amen. Hello everyone! I sure missed being among you these past two Sundays. I especially missed being able to welcome those strangers from the East who came to offer gifts to the child Jesus. But, now we move away from Jesus as…
December 15, 2024: May God’s words be spoken, may God’s words be heard. Amen. Okay, here’s the thing…the gospel you just heard isn’t the one prescribed for this Sunday. The church would have us hear another passage about John the baptizer, and never hear the annunciation of Mary (except if you come to Lessons &…
