Fr. Funston’s sermon for the Fifth Sunday of Easter is now on line: It was the summer of 1961; that was the second summer my cousins were there as well. Bob – two years old then me, Randy – 20…
Continue ReadingFr. Funston’s sermon for the Fourth Sunday of Easter is now on line: I hate the 23rd Psalm! Eight years of saying it every night of every summer will do that to you! I tried to get him to change…
Continue ReadingFr. Funston’s sermon for the Third Sunday of Easter is now available on lined: I have to admit that I would be hard-pressed to choose one of the many post-resurrection appearances of Christ as my favorite. Each one recorded in…
Continue ReadingThe Rector’s sermon for the Feast of the Resurrection is now on line: In the run up to Easter which is the season of Lent several of us in this parish took some time out of our everyday lives to…
Continue ReadingThe Rector’s sermon for Good Friday is now available on line: In the first act of the drama of redemption, Love tried to teach his lesson through bread and wine, through water and basin, through garden prayer, and through willing…
Continue ReadingFr. Funston’s sermon for the first day of the Triduum (“the three-days”, the church’s commemoration of Christ’s crucifixion and resurrection) is now available on line. Redemption is a drama in three acts – three acts and a brief intermission –…
Continue ReadingFather Funston’s sermon for Palm Sunday is now on line. We have just read the simple, yet dramatic story of our Lord’s Passion as related in Mark’s Gospel. But we began our worship this morning with John’s story of Christ’s…
Continue ReadingFr. Funston’s sermon for Sunday, March 25, 2012, the Fifth Sunday in Lent, answers two parishioners’ questions: “What does catholic mean in the Nicene Creed?” and “what does it mean to describe the Episcopal Church as being ‘in the Catholic…
Continue ReadingFr. Funston’s sermon for Sunday, March 18, 2012, the Fourth Sunday in Lent, answers a parishioner question: “What is fasting and why do we do it?” The simple answer is that fasting is going without some or all food or…
Continue ReadingThe Rector’s sermon for the Third Sunday of Lent, Lectionary Year B, is now on the internet: “What does ‘social justice’ mean in the Episcopal Church?” Social justice generally refers to the idea of creating a society or institution that…
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