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Fr. Funston’s sermon for Sunday, June 2, 2013, the Second Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 4C), his 10th anniversary as Rector of this parish, is now available online: More important than the building and the grounds are the ministries through which…
Continue ReadingFr. Funston’s sermon for May 26, 2013, exploring the common themes of Trinity Sunday and Memorial Day is now online: Memorial Day, like Trinity Sunday, is a day whose theme is community, the nation as community, the military services as…
Continue ReadingFr. Funston’s sermon for Pentecost Sunday, May 19, is now available on line at the Rector’s blog: I was told once that there is a difference between Yankee fairy tales and Northern fairy tales, and the difference is found in…
Continue ReadingFr. Funston’s sermon for the 4th Sunday of Easter is now on line: That’s one of the Good News lessons for today, for this week, I think. Jesus asks us to pray for and forgive those who do us wrong,…
Continue ReadingFr. Funston’s sermon for the Third Sunday of Easter is now online: The two stories from Scripture today teach us the same lesson. Jesus comes to us when and where and as we are able to understand and appreciate him,…
Continue ReadingFr. Funston’s sermon for the Second Sunday of Easter (April 7, 2013) is now available online: Belief is one of those ambiguous words that can mean so many things. In the creedal sense, it means to give intellectual assent to…
Continue ReadingFr. Funston’s sermon for Easter Sunday, March 31, 2013, now available on line: Only a poet like John Updike could use the word monstrous to describe the Resurrection of Christ and, in spite of its shock value, or perhaps because…
Continue ReadingFr. Funston’s sermon for the Feast of St. Patrick is now available online: For St. Patrick it seems the faith which passed the test was deeply Trinitarian and deeply evangelical. He is credited with using the shamrock, now one of…
Continue ReadingFr. Funston’s sermon for the 4th Sunday in Lent is now available online: Reconcile is an interesting word. It has three parts, actually to prefixes and a base verb, all from the Latin. The base verb is calare (or cilire…
Continue ReadingFr. Funston’s sermon for the Third Sunday of Lent, March 3, 2013, is now available on-line: There is a tension at work in this story: God commands Moses to keep his distance as a matter of reverence and respect, but…
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