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 &…
December 8, 2024: May God’s words be spoken, may God’s words be heard. Amen. Well, we have made the annual Advent turn. You know, the turn our gospel just took for us. Today, we are not hearing about the second Advent, but the first. After weeks of his return, we are heading into weeks of…
December 1, 2024: May God’s words be spoken, may God’s words be heard. Amen. Welcome back from the great Thanksgiving feast-a-thon! I hope yours was as wonderful as mine was – filled with good food, good friends, and a rainy parade. In the gospel (cheery again, right) Jesus says “There will be signs in the…
November 24, 2024: May God’s words be spoken, may God’s words be heard. Amen. This Sunday we enter into a week of thanksgiving to God for all of life. We gather with family and friends, and laugh, cry, cheer for our favorite teams, and argue over some thing or another. Perhaps though, you are…
November 17, 2024: May God’s words be spoken, may God’s words be heard. Amen. Well, that’s a cheery gospel, isn’t it? If you ever doubted if the church’s lectionary was in Advent in this time, this text ought to be perfectly clear about that, because Advent always begins with the second coming of Christ –…
November 3, 2024 – The Feast of All Saints – May God’s words be spoken, may God’s words be heard. Amen. As I have said before, I just love that phrase from our collect of the day today: “ineffable joys.” Ineffable, which means “too great or extreme to be expressed or described in words.” I…
October 27, 2024: May God’s words be spoken, may God’s words be heard. Amen. The lesson we heard from the letter to the Hebrews started with “The former priests were many in number, because they were prevented by death from continuing in office.” Nice, right? As you might guess, this priest isn’t planning on preaching…
September 29, 2024: May God’s words be spoken, may God’s words be heard. Amen. In our first reading, from the book of Esther, we got to hear a small part of this incredible woman’s story. For the life of me, I cannot understand why our lectionary, the readings chosen for each week, and used by…
