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Sunday Pentecost 3
6/26/22 Now. Follow Me Now. “Are you busy?” The Rev’d D. Rebecca Dinovo asks. So busy, you’re putting off Jesus for when you’re more ready? Mo. Rebecca points out that St. Luke asks us to “arrange our lives around following Jesus … not just as a promise for the future, but today, right now, right here. Not next year, not next month, not next week, not tomorrow – now.” Read here |
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Sunday Pentecost 2
6/19/22 Clothed in Christ The Rev’d Mark Hargreaves takes St. Paul’s and St. Luke’s passages about being clothed and being naked and discusses what it is to be “clothed in Christ”. Read now. |
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Sunday, Trinity and Pipe Sunday
6/12/22 Pipe Sunday At the end of the week during which our new organ’s pipes arrived, The Rev’d Mark Hargreaves finds a clear path to explaining the Trinity in terms of the organ we’re currently building. See how he weaves the organ with its player at the keyboard, its pipes and its wind together in a trinity of love to lead the congregation in worship. Read now |
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Sunday Penteost
6/5/22 Unity In Diversity In the fractious world we live in The Rev’d D. Rebecca Dinovo points to the messages of Pentecost to show how we can “… live and proclaim our unity in diversity and … overcome evil, violence and hatred, with God’s help”. Read now. |
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Sunday Easter 7
5/29/22 God Knows You For our final Easter season sermon The Rev’d Mark Hargreaves talks to us about how to recognize Jesus in our lives, and gives us some practical ways to do that, assuring us that “God sees us. He knows us. He recognizes us. He knows us by name.” Read now. |
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Sunday Easter 6
5/22/22 Touch Me Sticking with the wondrous events of Easter, The Rev’d Mark Hargreaves visits the experience of “Doubting” Thomas to demonstrate that “in the midst of our sad and desperate world, we are a people of hope . . . The resurrection is to us proof that evil will not triumph. Death is not the last word. A great reversal has taken place . . . God is at work in the world as he is at work in us.” Read now |
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Sunday Easter 5 (Bishop Visitation)
5/15/22 Change the World On her visitation The Rt. Rev’d Susan Brown Snook led us in confirmation of our baptismal vows and told us to change the world by sharing God’s love and the good news of Jesus Christ: “It’s our mission to love. Jesus calls us to love. We must love. And love is what changes this world.” Read now. |
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Good Shepherd Sunday Easter 4
5/8/22 Good Shepherd On Good Shepherd Sunday we revisit how Jesus knows his sheep and how they know him. The Rev’d D. Rebecca Dinovo asks us to listen carefully. If we do “…we discover that we truly do know the voice of the Good Shepherd when we hear it.” Read now. |
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Sunday Easter 3
5/1/22 Listening Well The disciples heard Jesus telling them where to successfully cast their net. It’s hard to really listen in the “busyness” of our lives, but the Rev’d Mark Hargreaves says that we too “… must be ready to hear him…We should listen, pay attention, and be prepared to respond.” Read now. |
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Sunday Easter 2
4/24/22 Seeing the Stranger It took the disciples a while to recognize Jesus on the road to Emmaus. This Easter season the Rev’d D. Rebecca Dinovo challenges us “…to practice resurrection by seeing the Resurrected Jesus in the eyes of the strangers around us – and to treat them with the kind of charity and kindness that we would have for Jesus himself.” Read now. |
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Easter Sunday (In-person worship)
4/17/22 Shrouded Jesus Speaking in front of scaffolding and a shrouded Christus Rex, the Rev’d Mark Hargreaves uses his surroundings as metaphors to assure us that “…we too are a work in progress and that one glorious day our resurrection hope will be fulfilled and we shall behold the glory of our Lord face to face.” Read now. |
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Easter Sunday (Online worship)
4/17/22 My Story The Rev’d D. Rebecca Dinovo places herself in St. Peter’s shoes to deliver a first-person account of Peter’s journey with Jesus: “Jesus changed my life. He will change yours, too.” Read now. |
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Maundy Thursday
4/14/22 Stinky feet Jesus washed their stinky feet. On this “mandate” Thursday the Rev’d D. Rebecca Dinovo makes it real by taking us down to the streets of Jerusalem where “…we are to walk in his steps and live according to his radical example of incarnational and sacrificial love.” Read now. |
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Palm Sunday
4/10/22 King of Hearts Our “king of kings” rides into town on a donkey and within a week is crucified with common criminals. The Rev’d. D. Rebecca Dinovo asks what kind of king is this? The answer: a king of the heart for a “…spiritual kingdom that ultimately conquers evil and death through love and sacrifice, not political prowess, war, or coercion.” Read now. |
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Sunday, Lent 5
4/3/22 Packing for the Journey Following St. Paul’s journeys can help us look at our own life journeys. Are we burdened down, or have we packed light? The Rev’d Mark Hargreaves encourages us to “follow Paul’s example of his focus and his determination. He knew what was most important in life.” Read now. |
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