Monthly Archives: May, 2021
May 30, 2021, God’s Image Is Family, Trinity Sunday – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: Today is Trinity Sunday, the Holy Feast Day following the Feast of Pentecost, where every year clergy tie themselves in knots seeking new ways to help people understand the doctrine of the Trinity, and every year people sit patiently in their pews knowing, when all is said and …
May 23, 2021, Do You Hear What I’m Saying? Acts 2:1-21 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
It was about seventeen years ago that Carroll and I began attending Trinity Church in Potsdam. One of the earliest things I remember at Trinity is the Day of Pentecost. Being in Potsdam where there are two universities, Trinity has a pretty diverse congregation, so it is their tradition on Pentecost that when the Deacon …
May 16, 2021, You Can Choose Your Friends, John 17 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
If you use Corelle dishes at your house, you know that they look and feel like glass, only they’re unbreakable – until they’re not. If you’ve ever dropped a Corelle plate onto a hard floor, you know that when they do break, they don’t just break. They shatter into a million billion smithereens. It seems …
May 9, 2021, A Tale of Two Visions, Acts 10:44-48 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
The passage from Acts we read this morning was so short that might have slipped through the cracks of your attention among all the other words and readings of the Mass. And that would be a shame, because what we read was a key moment in the life of the Church. So what I want …
May 2, 2021, Cambial Contact: Viniculture 101, John 15:1-17 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
“I am the Vine; you are the Branches. Abide in me, as I abide in you.” Oddly enough, I want to begin today with a little lesson in horticulture, or, actually, viniculture, I guess. Specifically, I want to briefly explain the process of grafting, which is joining a branch, or a scion, of one species …
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