Harrowing Of Hell

Category: Gratitude

May Your Thanksgiving be Full of Gratitude

Sermon | November 23, 2023

Good Morning and Happy Thanksgiving! I love Thanksgiving. It is probably my favorite secular holiday. Perhaps you too have memories of family Thanksgivings, getting together with the cousins and running around grandma and grandpa’s farm. Those are my early memories. I also remember spending a Thanksgiving during my college years with my then boyfriend cooking

Thanksgiving

Sermon | November 24, 2022

Good morning and Happy Thanksgiving to all of you! It’s a joy to be with you this morning at Epiphany, my first Thanksgiving as a priest! And as you hear me preach and as we get to know one another better, you’ll get a sense of how important family and community are to me. Each

Faith in Hard Times

Sermon | January 9, 2022

Good morning. On Thursday evening this past week at the Feast of the Epiphany I shared my vision for this parish over the next year or seven. It included more thorough integration of our spiritual conversations. And so, today we begin with a sermon titled: Faith in Hard Times, followed by the 10:00 am forum

Sewing Community Together by Faith

Sermon | March 28, 2021

We have a very familiar story today in the Gospel of Mark. It is the story of Jesus riding victoriously into Jerusalem; people spread their cloaks on the street, they lay palm branches on the ground, and wave them over their heads. They cry out: “Hosanna in the highest! Blessed is the one that comes

God Loves the Small Things

Sermon | December 13, 2020

Something very small is about to take place. Something small, yet personally significant, at least to the parents, Mary and Joseph. A baby is going to be born. Certainly, in their hearts, there is a stirring, there is hope.  In their imagination and conversation, they speculate and anticipate. Both have had dreams and visions around