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Sermon for Sunday, January 12th 2025

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The Baptism of the Lord – [Proper 1], rcl yr c, 2025ISAIAH 43:1-7; PSALM 29; ACTS 8:14-17; LUKE 3:15-17, 21-22 keep your children, born of water and the Spirit, faithful to their calling I’m going to take as my starting point today a tasty little morsel from the collect. (The Collect is one of the […]

Sermon for Sunday, January 5th 2025

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The Epiphany of the Lord (observed), rcl yr c, January 5th 2025ISAIAH 60:1-6; PSALM 72:1-7, 10-14; EPHESIANS 3:1-12; MATTHEW 2:1-12 bring me word so that I may also go and pay him homage There is no doubt about it: King Herod was a cruel ruler. We get a small taste of that today. Herod, according […]

Sermon for Sunday, December 29th 2024

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Sunday After Christmas, 2024, SJE The Sunday before Christmas we heard the boisterous, world-upending prophetic song of a young adolescent girl in Mary’s Magnificat. Now the Sunday after Christmas we peak in on another ‘tween’, a not nearly adolescent boy Jesus. In the time since the angel’s announcement, Gabriel’s annunciation to Mary, she together with Joseph have […]

Sermon for Christmas Eve, 2024

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The Birth of the Lord: Christmas Day, Dec 24th 2024ISAIAH 9:2-7; PSALM 96; TITUS 2:11-14; LUKE 2:1-20 He it is who gave himself for us that he might redeem us from all iniquity and purify for himself a people of his own who are zealous for good deeds In late April this year, comedian Russel […]

Sermon for Sunday, December 22nd 2024

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December 22, 2024Advent 4 Friends, please be seated. A long time ago, in a world far, far away, someone was contemplating how to write his gospel. We call that person Luke and this, beginning on the First Sunday in Advent, is the Year of Luke. Luke’s language hints that he was a man of learning, that he was versed in other peoples’ gospels, […]

Sermon for Sunday, December 15th 2024 – Advent 3 – Surely it is God who saves me

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Third Sunday of Advent, rcl yr cSunday, December 15th, 2024ZEPHANIAH 3:14-20; CANTICLE 3 (ISAIAH 12:2-6); PHILIPPIANS 4:4-7; LUKE 3:7-18 Surely, it is God who saves me;Let your gentleness be known to everyone. I don’t recall ever hearing anyone say “I love John the Baptist.” I can’t imagine ever saying it myself, either. Is he compelling? […]

Sermon for Sunday, December 8th 2024

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The Second Sunday of Advent, rcl yr c,December 8, 2024MALACHI 3:1-4; LUKE 1:68-79; PHILIPPIANS 1:3-11; LUKE 3:1-6 Prepare the way of the Lord…and all flesh shall see the salvation of God.               Luke 3:4b, 6 When Paula and I moved to Kitchener in the late 1970s, there was an abundance of rolling countryside surrounding the city. It […]

Sermon for Sunday, December 1st 2024 – Advent 1

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My friend and colleague Dr. Andrea Mann returned home to Vancouver yesterday after a few weeks of travel. Hers was a particularly risky pilgrimage. Andrea serves the national life of the Anglican Church of Canada as Director of Global Relations and has carried huge responsibilities over thirty years for our Canadian Anglican partnerships with other […]

Sermon for Sunday, November 24th 2024

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Reign of Christ, 2024, Church of St. John the Evangelist, Kitchener Five weeks ago, I decided that I needed to make a solo visit to a part of France where my family and I spent several years.   I have had a lot of solo wanderings this past year. I love to take photographs and […]

Sermon for Sunday, November 17th 2024

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November 17, 2024Pentecost + 26 Friends, please be seated. Because we are closing in on the end of the Church Year, we are hearing the Gospel of Mark for the last time. Next week, we shall observe the Feast of the Reign of Christ, the last Sunday of the Church Year. The feast pulls from […]