Category Archives: Sermons
January 27, 2019 – Is Any Body Out There? – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000117 What did you do in the year 2018? I don’t lead a very exciting life, so it’s not too hard for me to come up with a list of accomplishments and activities for the past year. I actually travelled somewhere in 2018, which was very unusual for …
January 20, 2019, Enough Is Not Enough – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
Here is the sermon you would have heard if there had not been a storm. The final words of John’s gospel say: “Now there are many other things that Jesus did. Were every one of them to be written, I suppose that the whole world could not contain the books that would be written.” John …
January 13, 2019, Baptizing Adam – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000116 The story of Jesus’ baptism is familiar to all of us, I think. We’ve read it, and heard it read, many times – it’s the gospel reading every year on the first Sunday after the Epiphany. We’ve seen paintings trying to portray it. It is this wondrous …
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 …
St. Philip's Episcopal Church 