This homily is given only once a year. The one Sunday a year when I am asked to speak about Giving. Giving of time, talent and treasure. Thank you for listening to this message. Thank you for being a part of our parish family. It’s been the blessing of a lifetime for me to serve…
A few years ago, I posted this message on Facebook: “I am not a cat person. I am thinking of getting a cat.” Well, truth be told I had not ever been much of an animal person, or at least so I thought. Bailey, my youngest son’s half-Collie-half-Golden Retriever, lived out the last of his…
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The theme of God’s people struggling to survive in a sophisticated, alien culture appears all throughout the Bible, especially in the Old Testament. This theme is central to the Book of Esther, which supplies today’s first reading. Today is the only Sunday in our three-year cycle of readings when we hear from this book. That’s…
The 31st chapter of the Book of Proverbs presents us today with the resume of a “spiritual Martha Stewart.” Telford Work, in Feasting on the Word, characterizes it as “an impossible job description…she makes her own clothes; she gets up in the middle of the night to get everyone else going; she takes care of…
As you know, it’s unusual for me to focus more on one of the other Sunday readings, when ordinarily I focus on the Gospel. Today’s reading from the Book of James was just too intriguing for me to pass up. James refers to the blessings and curses which come from the use of our tongues…
You may already know this about me but I am not by nature a quiet person. Third child in a household of six, I had to speak up loud and clear to be heard. An extrovert par excellence, I feel compelled to fill awkward silences in awkward conversations. An extrovert, who also happens to have…
Bread and more bread huh? Every three years in our lectionary cycle we have a summer of “Bread of life” sermons from Jesus in John’s Gospel. Now many Episcopalians are not at church during this time but since I have been a priest in training or a new priest or a supply priest for the…
Offensive. It is amazing how little our culture finds offensive: in films, on the internet, on primetime, cable, and streaming TV. There’s a cornucopia of binge-worthy series to watch with all kinds of sketchy situations and deliciously salacious scenarios. (Which I am totally guilty of watching myself!😊) Now I am no prude. I do not…
Be angry but do not sin. Ephesians 4:26 Anger is a perfectly acceptable response to a pandemic. It’s a perfectly acceptable response to everything the pandemic has turned upside-down this past year. I’ve been angry. Have you been? It’s perfectly okay if your answer is yes. Even as we emerge from the pandemic, it’s okay…
Today is one of those rare occasions when I have not chosen the Gospel reading to preach on. Last Sunday we began a five-week series on the Bread of Life discourse from St. John’s Gospel, so we’ll come back to Eucharistic themes several more times throughout the month of August. Instead, please let me…
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