Christmas Day sermon – Amy Hamilton
Advent 4 sermon – Jen Bourque
Sermon for Advent II, 2019: Baruch 5:1-9; Luke 1:68-79; Phil. 1:3-11; Luke 3:1-6 Gracious and Loving God, you speak to us in many ways and at all times. May we hear you this day and live what we hear. Being more accustomed to having Handel’s Messiah carry me into the season I am surprised to […]
Advent 1 Year C – December 2, 2018 Jer 33.14-16; ps 25; 1 Thess 3.9-13; Luke 21.25-36 ‘May the Lord strengthen your hearts in holiness that you may be blameless before your God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints’. ‘You’ll see,’ they said. ‘Sometimes it does not even […]
HOMILY—25th AFTER TRINITY—Living in Dangerous Times In the name of the one, holy and undivided Trinity: Creator, Redeemer and Sustainer. Amen. If you’re at all like me, watching the nightly news has become spiritually risky business. I say that because, not only does so much of what I see and hear so […]
Sermon preached at the service “Music and Readings for All Souls“
All Souls –4 November 2018 @ 4 pm John 11.17-37; 38-45 – “I am the resurrection and the life, says the Lord. Those who believe in me, even though they die, will live, and everyone who lives and believes in me will never die’ The story of the raising of Lazarus is both inspirational and […]
SERMON—ALL SAINTS’ 2018—Saints Despite Ourselves We praise you, Lord, in the diversity and glory of your saints. In the name of the holy and undivided Trinity, one God now and forever. Amen. This past summer, a number of us were reading or re-reading a book about Dorothy Day, the American Christian pacifist […]
Pentecost 22 – 21 October 2018 Isaiah 53.4-12; Ps 91.9-16; Heb 5.1-10; Mark 10.35-45 “all we like sheep have gone astray; we have all turned to our own way, and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all’ Last week saw a vast number of pilgrims congregate from all over the world […]