Fr. 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…
Continue ReadingFr. 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,…
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