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Sermon, October 24, 2021 Pentecost 22

What Do You Want Me to Do for You? Our Gospel reading this morning marks a turning point in Mark’s Gospel.  This is the last healing miracle Jesus performs.  He and the disciples are heading to Jerusalem where eventually he will be arrested and crucified.  He is in Jericho taking the pilgrimage route from Galilee, […]

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Sermon, October 17, 2021 – Pentecost 21

We Don’t Know What We’re Asking There’s an old bit of wisdom that states that if one really doesn’t want to know the answer to a particular question, then don’t ask the question.  In today’s reading from the book of Job in the Hebrew scriptures and from the Gospel we hear examples of question being […]

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Sermon, October 10, 2021 – Pentecost 20

It’s All About Grace A man died and found himself standing before St. Peter and the Pearly Gates, the Book of Life was open on Peter’s desk.  He looked up the new arrival’s name and assured him that his name was indeed written in the Book.  Peter tells him there’s one more test, the man […]

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Sermon, October 3, 2021 – Feast of St. Francis of Assisi (transferred)

St. Francis’ Gift Tomorrow [October 4] is the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi a thirteenth century friar about whom little is known, and much is speculated and legendary.  At various times of his life he was a soldier and prisoner of war, a party animal, and ultimately the founder of one of the largest […]