Author Archive: saintphilipsnorwood
March 2, 2014, Last Sunday of Epiphany – Mountain Top Experiences
To listen to the sermon, click here: 130902_001 Christianity is a very down-to-earth faith. We live our Christian lives in the stress and rush of the day-to-day world. We practice being disciples of Christ in our relationships with family and friends, in our work, in our illnesses and all the other troubles and complications of …
A Meditation on the Transfiguration
As I returned home once, several years ago, from a particularly uplifting retreat, my arms full of dirty laundry, it seemed to me that my face must be shining at least a little bit like Moses emerging from one of his face-to-face conversations with God. I was back among the people I love and share …
February 23, 2014, Epiphany 7 – Becoming Perfect
To listen to this sermon, click here: 130827_001 Today we finish reading the long teaching that we began two weeks ago. Jesus said he had come to fulfill the law completely. But obeying the law isn’t what you’ve been taught, he told them, just following a bunch of rules about what you can or can’t …
February 16, 2014, Epiphany 6 – Choose Life
To listen to this sermon, click here: 130819_001 Carroll and I like to watch detective shows sometimes; they’re very exciting. And I imagine we’ve all had the experience of watching a really exciting episode, and things look really desperate, and then you see the words “to be continued….” This sermon is going to be a …
February 9, 2014, Epiphany 5 – A Call to Compassion
To listen to this sermon click here: 130813_001 The passage from Matthew’s gospel that we just read is part of the teaching we call the “Sermon on the Mount”. Jesus has sat down on the top of a hill to teach, and his disciples, his students, have come and gathered around him to hear him. …
February 2, 2014, Epiphany 4 – Safe in His Arms
To listen to this sermon, click here: 130805_001 Happy are the people whose strength is in you! whose hearts are set on the pilgrims’ way. When we were young, we, or at least a lot of us, I think, felt like we were pretty much indestructible. We did stupid, foolhardy things and we took risks …
January 26, 2014, Epiphany 3 – Lights in the Land of the Living
To listen to this sermon, click here: 130729_001 Only the outline is available for this sermon: praying the collect – asking big things – Give us grace, O Lord, to answer readily the call of our Savior Jesus Christ 1. today we ask to do as the fishermen did – to leave behind what we …
January 19, 2014, Epiphany 2 – No More Hiding
To listen to this sermon, click here: 130722_001 “Behold the Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world.” In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit… Every week, when we celebrate the Eucharist, we consecrate the bread and the wine, asking the Holy Spirit to …
January 12, 2014, Epiphany 1 – The Mystery of Humility
To listen to this sermon, click here: 130715_001 It is a very hard thing to feel helpless. When we are very sick, or in recovery from surgery, there are times when we can’t do anything at all for ourselves. We don’t like it at all – that feeling of helplessness and dependency is often worse …
January 5, 2014, Epiphany – Bringing It All Back
To listen to this sermon, click here: 130708_001 Yesterday Irene was all ready to generously give of her time and energy by taking down the big tree in the Parish Hall. I asked her to wait, though, because the Christmas season isn’t over until the Feast of the Epiphany, which technically means not until tomorrow. …
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