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Sermon, November 28, 2021 – Advent 1

A Promise of Hope Happy New Year! This morning marks the beginning of a new church calendar year. Once, again, we, as Christians, demonstrate that we are deliberately out of step with the rest of the world – especially the consumer world. Just look around, the stores have been decorated for Christmas since sometime in […]

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Sermon November 21, 2021 – Feast of Christ the King

A King Like No Other Today we celebrate the Feast of Christ the King. This festival marks the end of Ordinary Time and serves as a bridge into Advent. This is a fairly new commemoration – less than 100 years old.  It was instituted by Pope Pius XI in December of 1922 as a response […]

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Sermon, November 14, 2021 – Pentecost 25

Instilling Hope We are approaching the conclusion of Ordinary Time, next Sunday we celebrate the Feast of Christ the King which will be the culmination of the journey we have traveled over the past twenty-five weeks. The Gospel for this morning is often called “the little apocalypse” or “revelation” where Jesus tells the disciples what […]

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Sermon, November 7, 2021 – Octave of All Hallows

The Saints at Rest Today is the transferred commemoration of All Saints’, which is actually a merging of three holy days: All Hallows’ Eve on 31 October (which gives us the holiday of Halloween), All Saints’ Day on 1st November and All Souls’ or the Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed on the 2nd.  These […]