Fr. Patrick Funston’s sermon for Christmas Eve (Midnight Mass) 2012 is now online. For as long as I’ve been paying attention to Christmas sermons, my dad has chosen some kind of focus object. He’ll keep his eyes and heart open…
Continue ReadingFr. Funston’s sermon for the Fourth Sunday of Advent is new available on his blog: I was a great fan of Charles Schultz’s cartoon Peanuts. I recall a Sunday installment in Lucy and Charlie Brown were talking about cruise ships.…
Continue ReadingFr. Funston’s sermon for the Third Sunday in Advent is now online: This is not the way we are supposed to be on this, the Third, Sunday of Advent! In the tradition of the church, today is known as Gaudete…
Continue ReadingFr. Funston’s sermon for the Second Sunday of Advent, December 9, 2012, is now available online: What is the crying at Jordan? What is the crying in New York? What is the crying at Arlington? What is the crying in…
Continue ReadingFr. Funston’s sermon for the First Sunday in Advent, December 2, 2012, is now available online: “Great God! I’d rather be a Pagan!” wrote Wordsworth more than 200 years ago. We modern Christians, he said, “have given our hearts away.…
Continue ReadingFr. George Baum preached at St. Paul’s Parish on Sunday, November 25, 2012, the Feast of Christ the King. His sermon began: Today’s Gospel reading seems to be all about power. There’s an obvious power struggle between Pilate and Jesus,…
Continue ReadingFr. Funston’s sermon for October 14, 2012, “The Patients of Job: Party Two – I Don’t Know Where to Find God!”, is now online: Job’s problem now, he believes, is that he doesn’t know where to find God! “If I…
Continue ReadingFr. Funston’s sermon for October 7, 2012, “The Patients of Job: Party One”, is now online: This book, as I made mention from this pulpit some weeks ago, is a work of fiction, but that does not stop it from…
Continue ReadingFr. Funston’s sermon for September 9, 2012, is now online: The difficulty of this passage is that we, as 21st Century Christians, want Jesus to be the simple, easy answer to all of our problems and to all of society’s…
Continue ReadingFr. Funston’s sermon for Sunday, September 2, 2012, the 14th Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 17B) is now online: Where the Pharisees sought to be separated from the unclean around them, Jesus preached the love of God which compels us to…
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