Fr. Funston’s sermon for Palm Sunday, April 13, 2014, is now online: It is so much easier to come for the pomp of Palm Sunday and then go about our business for the week, ignoring Maundy Thursday and Good Friday,…
Continue ReadingFr. Funston’s sermon for Lent 5, April 6, 2014, is now online: Ezekiel, a young apprentice priest, experienced this. The religious institution he served, the Jerusalem Temple, was destroyed and he was reduced from a prominent position as a priest…
Continue ReadingFr. Funston’s sermon for Lent 4, March 30, 2014, is now online: I want to suggest to you that community is what the story of the healing of the man blind from birth is all about, although everyone in the…
Continue ReadingFr. Funston’s sermon for the 3rd Sunday in Lent, March 23, 2014, is now available online: There is welcome here for the “spiritual but not religious,” the unaffiliated, the disaffiliated, the questioner, the doubter . . . everyone. We don’t…
Continue ReadingFr. Funston’s sermon for Sunday, March 16, Lent 2, “Break the Chains,” is now available on his blog: Nicodemus, a Pharisee of the Sanhedrin, who has come to Jesus professing his great admiration and respect, cannot accept what Jesus tells…
Continue ReadingFr. 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…
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