This sermon was read by Fr. Moretz.
Sermon Topic: Lent
The Temple: The Holy of Holies
Part of our Lent 2025 Sunday Evensong sermon series "The Temple of Jerusalem".
This morning we come to the end of a long wandering: a Lenten journey through the Temple in Jerusalem. Week by week we’ve explored its courts and colonnades. And now we’ve come to its center. The place behind the veil. The Holy of Holies. The Holy of Holies, that innermost sanctuary at the heart of […]
Live Life – Live Lent
Some years ago, I visited a Benedictine Monastery in England. The Abbot met me and welcomed me warmly. We went to the refectory for lunch. “I must apologize that our hospitality will not be to its usual standard, father,” he said, “since it is Holy Week, we are only having three courses and there is […]
Taking Stock...
“Let us set out on the path of fasting and use these 40 days to take stock of ourselves, to free ourselves from the dictatorship of full schedules, crowded agendas, and superficial needs, and choose the things that truly matter.” Words of Pope Francis. What would that kind of fast look like to you? We […]
Community and Growth
Some words of Pope Francis: “Lent is the time to proclaim that God alone is Lord, to drop the pretense of being self-sufficient and the need to put ourselves at the center of things, to be the top of the class, to think that by our own abilities we can succeed in life and transform […]
The Examen of St. Ignatius
from the 2024 Lenten sermon series: “Lord, teach us to pray” - current and former clergy of Saint Thomas explore patterns of prayer.
Where is God? What is God up to? In my early twenties, when I began formal discernment of a calling to ordained ministry, I was asking those questions a lot, as you might imagine. What is God up to in my life? Where is God in all of this? And it was […]
When is Now
In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. Amen. Our Gospel today presents us with a challenge that begins with asking a particular question That I think we need to take seriously You may have been asking it yourself when you heard the Gospel reading And I want […]
God Bless America
The words of John 3:16, ‘For God so loved the world that he gave his only son…’ are for many raised in conservative Christian circles, the most familiar in the Bible, because they sum up the conviction that Jesus came to bring salvation and we can find eternal life by believing in him. We often […]
Jesus – ‘the fullness of him who fills all in all.’
(Ephesians 1:23b)
Michael Ramsey, 100th Archbishop of Canterbury, used to teach that there is a natural order of things in creation; if you will, the order that things are meant to be. He expressed this as God – Man – Things. However, this became disordered with God moved to the bottom of the natural order and, even […]
Risking Shame
Over the past week I have often wondered how Alexei Navalny must have felt on the 17th of January 2021 when, immediately after recovering from being poisoned by Russian agents with the infamous Novichok nerve agent, he boarded on a plane from Germany to Russia fully aware that he would be detained immediately on his arrival. […]
