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Fr. Funston’s sermon for Sunday, March 9, Lent 1, is now available on line: Today, as we step further into the season of Lent, this season of self-examination when we liturgically join Jesus for his forty days in the desert,…
Continue ReadingFr. Funston’s sermon for the Last Sunday after Epiphany, March 2, is now available online: We should think of Jesus as the lens of a microscope, or a telescope, or just as a magnifying glass. We should read Paul through…
Continue ReadingFr. Funstons’ sermon for the 7th Sunday after Epiphany, February 23, 2014, is now online: Jesus doesn’t ask much, does he? Only perfection! “Be perfect,” he tells us, “as your heavenly Father is perfect.” Of course, Jesus is simply echoing…
Continue ReadingFr. Funston’s sermon for Sunday, February 16, 2014, the Sixth Sunday after Epiphany, is now online: In Deuteronomy, we are standing on a high hill looking over the border into Canaan-land and Moses is reminding the Hebrews of their past.…
Continue ReadingFr. 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 ReadingFr. Funston’s sermon for December 8, 2013, the First Sunday of Advent, is now online: Friday was a Holy Day in America! It was a day when all across the nation thousands, if not millions, of people breathed prayers of…
Continue ReadingFr. Funston’s sermon for June 16, 2013, Pentecost 4 (Proper 6C), “Honoring Women on Fathers’ Day” is now available online: These are the three pictures of women in today’s scriptures: a woman of wealth and power who used who wealth…
Continue ReadingFr. Funston’s sermon for Sunday, June 9, 2013, is now available at his blog: I am often called upon to engage in conversation with atheists who want to tell me why they don’t believe in God. I don’t go looking…
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