Category Archives: audio sermons
January 6, 2019, Watch for the Light – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000115 My daughter-in-law Christina is a photographer. Nowadays, everybody can be a photographer because we have cell phones and smart phones that we carry with us at all times, and we snap pictures of anything and everything. But there is a big difference in being a real photographer, …
December 30, 2018, The Holy Innocents and the Sign of Light – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000114 Here in the Church, Christmas isn’t over yet. Even though there are already trees lying along the curbs, the twelve days of Christmas didn’t end on December 25th, it only began then, and it stretches all the way to January 6th, next Sunday, when we remember the …
December 23, 2018, Ark, Incarnation and a Small Town Girl – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000113 I grew up in the Catholic Church – there are a lot of us old Roman Catholics here, I think. And we remember that in the Catholic Church, Mary is a person of great importance, a woman to be honored, for her holiness, for her humility, for …
December 16, 2018, Navigating by Joy – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000112 Today, when we lit the three candles on the wreath for the third Sunday of Advent, we lit the rose-colored candle. Also today I’m wearing the rose-colored vestments and the chalice is veiled in pink, and there are beautiful roses for the altar. And all that is …
December 9, 2018, Clearing the Way – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000111 I think quite a few of you have met my little dog Dorie. Dorie is a Welsh Corgi, so she has no tail and big ears and very, very short legs. And a really loud bark. But like many of us, she’s getting a little bit …
December 2, 2018, Traveling the In-Between – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000110 Christmas seems to have sprouted in our village of Norwood, fully-formed, like mushrooms after a rain. Before the Thanksgiving turkeys had finished becoming leftovers, lighted trees were shining in windows all down the street. Icycle lights and giant inflatable cartoon characters popped up here and there, on …
November 25, 2018, Citizens Without Borders – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000109 So much of the liturgy and tradition of our Church is handed down over the centuries, that I was surprised recently to learn that this day, the Feast of Christ the King, is kind of new in our Church calendar. It was instituted in 1925 by Pope …
November 18, 2018, Designated Survivor – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000108 There is a show on TV called “Designated Survivor”. The title comes from a real contingency plan that’s been in place in our government since Cold War times. It says that anytime the President and Vice President, and all the other potential successors to the Presidency are …
November 11, 2018, The Widow’s Might – guest speaker, Carroll Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000107 Let’s imagine you are walking down the street and you see a penny lying on the sidewalk. Do you pick it up? Maybe. Maybe not. A penny is not worth enough to be much of a temptation for most of us. Though I myself always pick up …
November 4, 2018, He Is Not the God of Ghosts, but of the Living – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000106 “Do you believe in ghosts?” Seeing as how it was Halloween this past Wednesday when we were working on Shepherd’s Pie for the Community Dinner, it wasn’t too surprising that that question came up. Do I believe in ghosts? I have to say, I’ve heard some very …
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