In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, One God. Amen. Christ is Risen! I’ll admit that this morning’s gospel reading is not the most exciting passage in all of Scripture. It doesn’t tell a story of a miraculous healing, it doesn’t describe the calming of a great […]

REPENTANCE IS ABOUT LOVE Sermon by the Rev. Fr. Philip Begley In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, One God, Amen. Last week we celebrated the feast of Theophany (the baptism of our Lord in the River Jordan) and of course, the manifestation of God in Trinity […]

SERMON 11-11-18 (Our Departed Neighbors) Today I want to focus on the 2 questions that the lawyer asks Jesus in today’s Gospel reading. His first question is: “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” Instead of answering, Jesus responds by turning the question back at the lawyer saying: “What is written in the […]

In this morning’s Epistle reading, St. Paul has some strong words for us. He says: “who are you to pass judgement on the servant of another? It is before his own master that he stands or falls.” We all know that God is our Master and that we are His servants, and we know that […]

The book of Genesis tells us that man was made in the image of God. This means that he was unique in all of creation. Mankind had something no other created being had: Free Will…the ability to choose. However, the first humans, Adam and Eve took this gift from God and used it to disobey […]

November 11, 2017 – In Today’s Gospel reading, our Lord tells a parable that makes a striking comparison between the fate of a rich man and the fate of a poor man. The rich man, we are told, was clothed in fine linen and feasted sumptuously every day. However, the poor man, (named Lazarus), had […]