Feast Days

Mother Katherine’s sermon preached on Oct. 1, 2023

Posted by on Sun, Oct 1, 2023 in Feast Days, Season after Pentecost, Sermons

Sermon preached by The Rev. Katherine Sedwick, Rector, on Oct. 1, 2023: “Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly… and never forget that the devil fell by force of gravity.” It’s an appropriate quote to begin with given the ‘lightness’ of our enactment of the reading from the Revelation to John. It sounds like a joke, but it’s a line from a section in G. K. Chesterton’s 1901 book, Orthodoxy, in which he explores the importance of taking ourselves more lightly and ‘less gravely.’”

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Livestream: Aug. 6, 2023

Posted by on Sun, Aug 6, 2023 in Feast Days, Livestream, Season after Pentecost

Video of the worship service livestreamed on Aug. 6, 2023, at 10:00 AM. Any words or music under copyright are included with permission under ONE LICENSE No. A-706794.

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Mother Katherine’s sermon preached on Aug. 6, 2023

Posted by on Sun, Aug 6, 2023 in Feast Days, Season after Pentecost, Sermons

Sermon preached by The Rev. Katherine Sedwick, Rector, on Aug. 6, 2023: “We all have moments of Sacred Presence. Many go to the mountains for nearness of God or renewal of our spirits. Here we also go to the waters. Wherever that is for you I hope you recognize in it a kinship with Jesus, who also went away by himself to pray in nature.”

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Mother Katherine’s sermon preached on Easter Day, Apr. 9, 2023

Posted by on Sun, Apr 9, 2023 in Easter, Feast Days, Sermons

Sermon preached by The Rev. Katherine Sedwick, Rector, on Easter Day, Apr. 9, 2023: “Some consider the Gospel writer’s different accounts of Jesus‘s resurrection a sign that they can’t get their act together. If it were in the news this morning we’d wonder which station had the true account and which was wrong. This world-changing revelation cannot be fact-checked…”

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Mother Katherine’s sermon preached on Jan. 8, 2023

Posted by on Sun, Jan 8, 2023 in Epiphany, Feast Days, Sermons

Palimpsest is from a Greek word palimpsestus meaning scraped again, originally referred to the re-using of parchment or papyrus pages which had the first writing scraped and washed off and the new text written on it, often several times. The practice dates to the 4th and 5th centuries and often used to write or over-write scripture and other early texts.

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Mother Katherine’s sermon preached on Jan. 1, 2023, at 10:30 AM

Posted by on Sun, Jan 1, 2023 in Christmas, Feast Days, Sermons

As I hear people say how much they want to leave 2022 behind, how ready we are for this new year, it occurred to me that I heard the same thing — last year. And the year prior. Yes, there’s been more than a little ‘bad news’, even a sense of ongoing darkness…

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