Protected: Homily for Harriet Gladys Mattheis

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Advent and Brahma Muhurta

Readings for the First Sunday of Advent (Year A) Isaiah 2:1-5 Psalm 122 Romans 13:11-14 Matthew 24:36-44 This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church in Eureka CA on November 27, 2022. Teach me, Lord, that I may teach the precious things thou dost impart; and wing my words, that they may reach the hidden depths of […]

Protected: Homily for Margaret ‘Peggy’ Eloise Molloy – “A Perfect Perichoretic Pirouette”

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The Gift that Keeps on Giving: The Bread of Gratitude

Readings for Thanksgiving (Year C) Deuteronomy 26:1-11Psalm 100Philippians 4:4-9John 6:25-35 This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church in Eureka CA on November 23, 2022. All who hunger sing together, Jesus Christ is living bread. Come from loneliness and longing. Here, in peace, we have been fed. Blest are those who from this table live their days […]

LIstening to The Echo of the Saints

Readings for the Feast of All Saints (Year C) Daniel 7:1-3,15-18Psalm 149Ephesians 1:11-23Luke 6:20-31 This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church in Eureka CA on November 6, 2022. “O teach me, Lord, that I may teach the precious things thou dost impart; and wing my words, that they may reach the hidden depths of many a […]

Seabury and the Patriotic Practice of Stewardship

This article was written for the October 2022 Chronicle newsletter for Christ Church Eureka. This March will be the 240th anniversary of the election of the first Episcopal bishop Samuel Seabury, the namesake of one of my Yorkies. The first Anglican worship service held on American soil took place in California in 1579, but Seabury wasn’t […]

Opening Prayer at Westmont in SF 50th Anniversary

Almighty and everlasting God, you have brought us in safety to this new beautiful day; and you have brought us all to this gathering here in this stimulating and eclectic city named after that radical Italian saint, St. Francis, who called us to preach the Gospel always and use words only when absolutely necessary. Today […]

Rising Above the Noise with Habakkuk and Zacchaeus

Readings for the Twenty First Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 26 – Year C – Track 1) Habakkuk 1:1-4; 2:1-4Psalm 119:137-1442 Thessalonians 1:1-4, 11-12Luke 19:1-10 This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church in Eureka CA on October 30, 2022. “O teach me, Lord, that I may teach the precious things thou dost impart; and wing my words, […]

Prayer that Packs a Persistent Punch

Readings for the Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 24 – Year C – Track 1) Jeremiah 31:27-34Psalm 119:97-1042 Timothy 3:14-4:5Luke 18:1-8 This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church in Eureka CA on October 16, 2022. Over the last several weeks, I’ve been teaching a church history and spirituality class online for the Episcopal seminary in Berkeley […]

Gratitude Unchained: Where are the Nine?

Readings for the Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 23 – Year C – Track 1) Jeremiah 29:1, 4-7Psalm 66:1-112 Timothy 2:8-15Luke 17:11-19 This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church in Eureka CA on October 9, 2022. There’s a quote attributed to the great 13th century German theologian and mystic Meister Eckhart, who supposedly said that there […]