Fr. Funston’s sermon for Sunday, February 9, Epiphany V, “City on the Hill, Obscured,” is now available on his blog: We were reminded last Sunday that this mission was inherited by Jesus when old Simeon took the infant Christ in…
Continue ReadingFr. Funston’s sermon for the Feast of the Presentation, February 2, “I Saw the Light!” is now available on his blog: Old Simeon had been hanging around the Temple for many years, a devout and orthodox Jew, hoping to see…
Continue ReadingFr. Funston’s sermon for the Annual Parish Meeting on January 26, 2014, Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul, “The Neighbors Can See In!” is now available online: A few decades ago when I was studying law I was introduced…
Continue ReadingO God, the blessed assurance of all who trust in you: We give you thanks for your servant Fanny Crosby, who, though blind from infancy, beheld your glory with great clarity of vision and spent her life giving voice to…
Continue ReadingMost holy God, the source of all good desires, all right judgements, and all just works: Give to us, your servants, that peace which the world cannot give, so that our minds may be fixed on the doing of your…
Continue ReadingSet us free, O God, from the bondage of our sins, and give us the liberty of that abundant life which you have made known to us in your Son our Savior Jesus Christ; who lives and reigns with you,…
Continue ReadingAlmighty and everlasting God, you govern all things both in heaven and on earth: Mercifully hear the supplications of your people, and in our time grant us your peace; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you…
Continue ReadingO God, who by your Spirit called Cornelius the Centurion to be the first Christian among the Gentiles: Grant to your Church such a ready will to go where you send and to do what you command, that under your…
Continue ReadingO God our Father, source of strength to all your saints, who brought the holy martyrs of Japan through the suffering of the cross to the joys of life eternal: Grant that we, being encouraged by their example, may hold…
Continue ReadingO God our light and salvation, we thank you for Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson, whose visions of the liberty of the soul illumined by the light of Christ made them brave prophets of religious tolerance in the American colonies;…
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