In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen. When I was in high school, some friends of mine and I decided that What our school really needed Was a secret society. So of course we formed one. We called ourselves “The Autumn Circle” Mostly because the majority […]
Sermon Topic: Christ's Resurrection
A Sermon for the Fifth Sunday of Easter
I’ve always had a soft spot for the paintings of Norman Rockwell. In the house where I grew up there was usually a stack of a few weeks’ worth of Life Magazines and Saturday Evening Posts sitting around somewhere. Rockwell did a lot of cover illustrations for the Post, including one he did in 1961 […]
Dying and Living with Christ
From the Holy Week 2021 Sermon Series: “Made like him, like him we rise, ours the cross, the grave, the skies”.
Christ's Resurrection Changes Everything
In the Name of God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Ghost. Amen. We are all here today because of an event which occurred in Jerusalem nearly two thousand years ago sometime between midnight and sunrise on the first Easter Sunday. No one saw it happen, but happen it did: God raised […]
To Be Continued
When was the last time you tried to get somewhere, only to be caught in one of those construction zones in which the sidewalk is closed and the noise is unbearable? There are those signs posted all over the place: hard-hat area, construction zone, or sidewalk closed. I really don’t like the barriers that make […]
One Word.
Alleluia! Christ is Risen! The Lord is risen indeed, Alleluia! You see how easy that trips off the tongue? We know the end of the story and that means that even on Good Friday, we hear the Passion Gospel and even see that through the lens of the Resurrection. But to truly understand today’s Gospel, […]
When things are dark, God acts.
Over the past week, Archbishop Rowan Williams has explored with us how the trial and death of Jesus transforms how we understand and exercise power. One of his most striking addresses, before Tenebrae on Wednesday, described the silence of Christ and how silence, especially in our noisy world, can become liberating so that we can […]
Blessed Are They Who Believe It Before They See It
Saint Thomas followed Jesus for three years, and in those three years his ability to believe his eyes and ears must have been stretched beyond his imagining. Prior to Jesus calling him as a disciple, would Thomas have ever imagined he would see the lame walk, the blind see, the deaf hear, the dead rise […]
Christ loves and fills all things.
The story of the raising of Lazarus comes at the very center of the fourth Gospel and is pivotal in our understanding of the Gospel. In the first half of the book Jesus performs a number of signs, which publically reveal the glory of God and allow him to enter deeply into the mystery of […]
I don't understand, but I know my God does.
“I don’t understand, but I know my God does.”- The words of Pastor Frank Pomeroy the day after a gunman killed 26 worshippers of his congregation, including his own 14-year-old daughter. “I don’t understand, but I know my God does.” When we face tragedy or loss, particularly when it comes suddenly and violently, we are […]
