Online Worship Resources
SUNDAY 8/28/22
THE TWELFTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST
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10am SUNG MASS
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Sermon
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SUNDAY 8/21/22
THE ELEVENTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST
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10am SUNG MASS
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Sermon
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SUNDAY 8/14/22
FEAST OF THE ASSUMPTION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY
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10am SUNG MASS
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Sermon
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SUNDAY 8/7/22
THE NINTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST
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10am SUNG MASS
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Sermon
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SUNDAY 7/31/22
THE EIGHTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST
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10am SUNG MASS
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Sermon
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SUNDAY 7/24/22
THE SEVENTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST
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10am SUNG MASS
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Sermon
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SUNDAY 7/17/22
THE SIXTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST
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10am SUNG MASS
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Sermon
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SUNDAY 7/10/22
THE FIFTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST
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10am SUNG MASS
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Sermon
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SUNDAY 7/3/22
THE FOURTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST
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10am SUNG MASS
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Sermon
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SUNDAY 6/26/22
THE THIRD SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST
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10am SUNG MASS
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Sermon
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SUNDAY 6/19/22
THE SOLEMNITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI:
The Body and Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ
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10am SOLEMN MASS, PROCESSION & BENEDICTION
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SUNDAY 6/12/22
TRINITY SUNDAY
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10am SOLEMN MASS & TE DEUM
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Sermon
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SUNDAY 6/5/22
THE DAY OF PENTECOST: Whitsunday
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10am SOLEMN MASS WITH PROCESSION & BAPTISMAL VOWS
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SUNDAY 5/29/22
THE SEVENTH SUNDAY OF EASTER
10 am Solemn Mass
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Sermon
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SUNDAY 5/22/22
THE SIXTH SUNDAY OF EASTER
10 am Solemn Mass
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Sermon
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SUNDAY 5/15/22
THE FIFTH SUNDAY OF EASTER
10 am Solemn Mass
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Sermon
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SUNDAY 5/8/22
THE FOURTH SUNDAY OF EASTER
10 am Solemn Mass
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SUNDAY 5/1/22
THE THIRD SUNDAY OF EASTER
10 am Solemn Mass
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SUNDAY 4/24/22
THE SECOND SUNDAY OF EASTER
10 am Solemn Mass
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Sermon
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SUNDAY 4/17/22
EASTER SUNDAY: THE SUNDAY OF THE RESURRECTION
10 am Solemn Mass
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SATURDAY 4/16/22
HOLY SATURDAY:
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7:30 pm THE GREAT VIGIL OF EASTER & FIRST MASS OF EASTER
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FRIDAY 4/15/22
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GOOD FRIDAY
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12 noon Solemn Liturgy and Veneration of the Cross
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THURSDAY 4/14/22
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MAUNDY THURSDAY
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7:30 pm Mass of the Lord's Supper
9:00 pm Night Watch with the Blessed Sacrament
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Sermon
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SUNDAY 4/10/22
PALM SUNDAY: THE SUNDAY OF THE PASSION
10 am Solemn Mass
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Sermon
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SUNDAY 4/3/22
THE FIFTH SUNDAY IN LENT
10 am Solemn Mass
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Sermon
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SUNDAY 3/27/22
THE FOURTH SUNDAY IN LENT
10 am Solemn Mass
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SUNDAY 3/20/22
THE THIRD SUNDAY IN LENT
10 am Solemn Mass
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SUNDAY 3/13/22
THE SECOND SUNDAY IN LENT
10 am Solemn Mass
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SUNDAY 3/06/22
THE FIRST SUNDAY IN LENT
10 am Solemn Mass
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5:30 pm EVENSONG & BENEDICTION for the
THE FIRST SUNDAY IN LENT
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WEDNESDAY 3/02/22
ASH WEDNESDAY
7 pm Solemn Mass
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Sermon
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SUNDAY 2/27/22
LAST SUNDAY AFTER EPIPHANY
10 am Solemn Mass
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SUNDAY 2/20/22
SEVENTH SUNDAY AFTER EPIPHANY
10 am Solemn Mass
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Sermon
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SUNDAY 2/13/22
SIXTH SUNDAY AFTER EPIPHANY
10 am Solemn Mass
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Sermon
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SUNDAY 2/6/22
FIFTH SUNDAY AFTER EPIPHANY
10 am Solemn Mass
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5:30 pm EVENSONG & BENEDICTION FOR THE PRESENTATION
OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE
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SUNDAY 1/2/22
SECOND SUNDAY OF CHRISTMAS
10 am Solemn Mass
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SUNDAY 1/9/22
FIRST SUNDAY AFTER THE EPIPHANY: THE BAPTISM OF OUR LORD
10 am Solemn Mass
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Sermon
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SUNDAY 1/16/22
SECOND SUNDAY AFTER THE EPIPHANY
10 am Solemn Mass
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SUNDAY 1/23/22
THIRD SUNDAY AFTER THE EPIPHANY
10 am Solemn Mass
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SUNDAY 1/30/22
SAINT STEPHEN, DEACON & MARTYR (Transferred)
10 am Solemn Mass
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Sermon
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SUNDAY 9/26/21
THE EIGHTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST
10 am Sung Mass
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WEDNESDAY 9/29/21
THE INSTITUTION OF THE NINETEENTH RECTOR ON THE FEAST OF ST. MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS
6 pm Solemn Mass
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SUNDAY 9/12/21
THE SIXTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST
10 am Sung Mass
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SUNDAY 9/19/21
THE SEVENTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST
10 am Sung Mass
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Sermon
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICE FOR SUNDAY 9/5/21
THE FIFTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST
10 am Virtual Sung Mass
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Offering: Online Giving
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICE FOR SUNDAY 6/20/21
THE FOURTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST
10 am Virtual Sung Mass
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Sermon
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Offering: Online Giving
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICE FOR SUNDAY 6/27/21
THE FIFTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST
10 am Virtual Sung Mass
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Sermon
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Offering: Online Giving
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICE FOR SUNDAY 7/4/21
THE SIXTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST
10 am Virtual Sung Mass
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Sermon
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Offering: Online Giving
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICE FOR SUNDAY 7/11/21
THE SEVENTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST
10 am Virtual Sung Mass
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Sermon
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Offering: Online Giving
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICE FOR SUNDAY 7/18/21
THE EIGHTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST
10 am Virtual Sung Mass
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Sermon
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Offering: Online Giving
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICE FOR SUNDAY 7/25/21
THE NINTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST
10 am Virtual Sung Mass
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Sermon
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Offering: Online Giving
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICE FOR SUNDAY 8/1/21
THE TENTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST
10 am Virtual Sung Mass
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Sermon
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Offering: Online Giving
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICE FOR SUNDAY 8/22/21
THE THIRTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST
10 am Virtual Sung Mass
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Sermon
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Offering: Online Giving
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICE FOR SUNDAY 8/29/21
THE FOURTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST
10 am Virtual Sung Mass
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Offering: Online Giving
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICE FOR SUNDAY 6/13/21
THE THIRD SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST
10 am Virtual Sung Mass
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Sermon
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Offering: Online Giving
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICE FOR SUNDAY 6/6/21
SOLEMNITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI: THE MOST PRECIOUS BODY AND BLOOD OF CHRIST
10 am Virtual Sung Mass
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Offering: Online Giving
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICE FOR SUNDAY 5/30/21
TRINITY SUNDAY: THE FIRST SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST
10 am Virtual Sung Mass
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Offering: Online Giving
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICE FOR SUNDAY 5/23/21
THE SUNDAY OF PENTECOST: WHITSUNDAY
10 am Virtual Sung Mass
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Sermon
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Offering: Online Giving
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Parish Notes
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICE FOR SUNDAY 5/2/21
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Sunday, 2 May, 2021
THE FIFTH SUNDAY OF EASTER
10 am Virtual Sung Mass
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Sermon
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Offering: Online Giving
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICE FOR SUNDAY 5/9/21
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Sunday, 9 May, 2021
THE SIXTH SUNDAY OF EASTER
10 am Virtual Sung Mass
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Sermon
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Offering: Online Giving
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICE FOR SUNDAY 4/18/21
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Sunday, 18 April, 2021
THE THIRD SUNDAY OF EASTER
10 am Virtual Sung Mass
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Offering: Online Giving
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICE FOR SUNDAY 4/25/21
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Sunday, 25 April, 2021
THE FOURTH SUNDAY OF EASTER
'Good Shepherd' Sunday
10 am Virtual Sung Mass
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Offering: Online Giving
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICE FOR SUNDAY 4/11/21
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Sunday, 11 April, 2021
THE SECOND SUNDAY OF EASTER
10 am Virtual Sung Mass
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Sermon
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Offering: Online Giving
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICE FOR SUNDAY 4/4/21
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Sunday, 4 April, 2021
EASTER SUNDAY: THE RESURRECTION OF OUR LORD
10 am Virtual Sung Mass
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Offering: Online Giving
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Saturday, April 3, 2021
THE GREAT VIGIL OF EASTER
7 pm Service
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICE FOR SUNDAY 3/28/21
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Sunday, 28 March 2021
PALM SUNDAY: THE SUNDAY OF THE PASSION
10 am Virtual Sung Mass
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Sermon
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Offering: Online Giving
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GOOD FRIDAY: MASS OF THE PRESANCTIFIED
Friday, April 2 2021
12 pm Service
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MAUNDY THURSDAY
Thursday, April 1 2021
7 pm Service
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICE FOR SUNDAY 3/14/21
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Sunday, 14 March 2021
FOURTH SUNDAY IN LENT
Refreshment Sunday
10 am Virtual Sung Mass
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Sermon
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Offering: Online Giving
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICE FOR SUNDAY 3/21/21
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Sunday, 21 March 2021
FIFTH SUNDAY IN LENT
10 am Virtual Sung Mass
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Sermon
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Offering: Online Giving
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICE FOR SUNDAY 3/7/21
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Sunday, 7 March 2021
THIRD SUNDAY IN LENT
10 am Virtual Sung Mass
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Offering: Online Giving
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICE FOR SUNDAY 2/28/21
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Sunday, 28 February 2021
SECOND SUNDAY IN LENT
10 am Virtual Sung Mass
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Offering: Online Giving
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICE FOR SUNDAY 2/21/21
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Sunday, 21 February 2021
FIRST SUNDAY IN LENT
10 am Virtual Sung Mass
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Sermon
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Offering: Online Giving
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICE FOR SUNDAY 2/14/21
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Sunday, 14 February 2021
LAST SUNDAY AFTER EPIPHANY
10 am Virtual Sung Mass
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Sermon
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Offering: Online Giving
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICE FOR SUNDAY 2/7/21
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Sunday, 7 February 2021
FIFTH SUNDAY AFTER EPIPHANY
10 am Virtual Sung Mass
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Offering: Online Giving
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICE FOR SUNDAY 1/31/21
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Sunday, 31 January 2021
FOURTH SUNDAY AFTER EPIPHANY
10 am Virtual Sung Mass
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Offering: Online Giving
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICE FOR SUNDAY 1/17/21
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Sunday, 17 January 2021
SECOND SUNDAY AFTER EPIPHANY
10 am Virtual Sung Mass
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Sermon
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Offering: Online Giving
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICE FOR SUNDAY 1/24/21
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Sunday, 24 January 2021
THIRD SUNDAY AFTER EPIPHANY
10 am Virtual Sung Mass
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Offering: Online Giving
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICE FOR SUNDAY 1/10/21
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Sunday, 10 January 2021
FIRST SUNDAY AFTER EPIPHANY: THE BAPTISM OF OUR LORD
10 am Virtual Sung Mass
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Sermon (Begins at 23:25)
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Offering: Online Giving
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICE FOR SUNDAY 1/3/21
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Sunday, 3 January 2021
SECOND SUNDAY OF CHRISTMAS
10 am Virtual Sung Mass
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Offering: Online Giving
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICE FOR SUNDAY 1/3/21
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Sunday, 27 December 2020
FIRST SUNDAY OF CHRISTMAS
10 am Virtual Sung Mass
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Sermon
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Offering: Online Giving
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VIRTUAL SERVICES FOR THURSDAY 12/24 and FRIDAY 12/25
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Thursday, 24 December 2020
EVE OF THE NATIVITY OF OUR LORD
10 pm Virtual Sung Mass
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Offering: Online Giving
Friday, 25 December 2020
THE NATIVITY OF OUR LORD
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10 am Low Mass
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Offering: Online Giving
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICE FOR SUNDAY 12/20
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Sunday, 20 December 2020
FOURTH SUNDAY IN ADVENT
10 am Virtual Sung Mass
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Sermon
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Offering: Online Giving
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Parish Notes
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICE FOR SUNDAY 12/13
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Sunday, 13 December 2020
GAUDETE SUNDAY
10 am Virtual Sung Mass
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Offering: Online Giving
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICE FOR SUNDAY 12/6
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Sunday, 6 December 2020
THE SECOND SUNDAY OF ADVENT
10 am Virtual Sung Mass
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Offering: Online Giving
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICE FOR SUNDAY 11/29
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Sunday, 29 November 2020
THE FIRST SUNDAY OF ADVENT
10 am Virtual Sung Mass
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Offering: Online Giving
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICE FOR SUNDAY 11/15
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Sunday, 15 November 2020
TWENTY-FOURTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST
10 am Virtual Sung Mass
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Sermon (Fr. Benjamin)
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Offering: Online Giving
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICE FOR SUNDAY 11/22
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Sunday, 22 November 2020
THE SOLEMNITY OF CHRIST THE KING
10 am Virtual Sung Mass
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Offering: Online Giving
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICE FOR SUNDAY 11/8
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Sunday, 8 November 2020
TWENTY-THIRD SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST
10 am Virtual Sung Mass
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Offering: Online Giving
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICE FOR ALL SOULS DAY 11/2
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Monday, 2 November 2020
ALL SOULS DAY
6 pm Virtual Sung Mass
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Offering: Online Giving
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICE FOR SUNDAY 10/25
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Sunday, 25 October 2020
The Twenty-First Sunday after Pentecost
10 am Virtual Sung Mass
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Sermon: What does it mean to Love? by Fr. Benjamin
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Offering: Online Giving
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICE FOR SUNDAY 11/1
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Sunday, 1 November 2020
ALL SAINTS DAY
10 am Virtual Sung Mass
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Offering: Online Giving
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICE FOR SUNDAY 10/18
Sunday, 18 October 2020
The Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost
10 am Virtual Sung Mass
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Sermon: "Whose Likeness and Image?" by Fr. Benjamin
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Offering: Online Giving
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Facebook Video Recording of Sung Mass
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICE FOR SUNDAY 10/11
Sunday, 11 October 2020
The Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost
10 am Virtual Sung Mass
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Sermon: Come to the Party by Fr. Benjamin
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Offering: Online Giving
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR WEDNESDAY 10/7
Wednesday, 7 October 2020
Feria (Proper 22)
5:30 pm Virtual Evening Prayer
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Lectionary: St. Luke 7:18-35
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Facebook Video Recording of Evening Prayer
6 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Galatians 2:1-2, 7-14; Psalm 117; St. Luke 11:1-4
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Homily: Title TBD by Fr. Straley
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Facebook Video Recording of Low Mass
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR TUESDAY 10/6
Tuesday, 6 October 2020
Feria (Proper 22)
12 noon Virtual Noonday Prayer
12:10 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Galatians 1:13-24; Psalm 139:1-14; St. Luke 10:38-42
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Homily: Praying the Psalms by Fr. Straley
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR MONDAY 10/5
Monday, 5 October 2020
Feria (Proper 22)
5:30 pm Virtual Evening Prayer
6 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Galatians 1:6-12; Psalm 111:1-6; St. Luke 10:25-37
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Homily: Who Is My Neighbor? by Fr. Locke
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICE FOR SUNDAY 10/4
Sunday, 4 October 2020
The Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost
10 am Virtual Sung Mass
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Lectionary: Isaiah 5:1-7; Psalm 80:7-15; Philippians 3:4b-14; St. Matthew 21:33-46
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Sermon: Mercy by Fr. Pearson
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Offering: Online Giving
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR SATURDAY 10/3
Saturday, 3 October 2020
Feria (Proper 21)
9:30 am Virtual Morning Prayer
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Lectionary: Hosea 11:1-9; St. Luke 6:27-38
10 am Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Job 42:1-6, 12-17; Psalm 119:169-176; St. Luke 10:17-24
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Homily: How Do You Pray? by Fr. Pearson
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10:45 am Virtual Holy Rosary
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR FRIDAY 10/2
Friday, 2 October 2020
Feria (Proper 21)
12 noon Virtual Noonday Prayer
12:10 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Job 38:1, 12-21 and 40:1-5; Psalm 139:1-19; St. Luke 10:13-16
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Homily: I Only Ask You to Love by Fr. Pearson
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR THURSDAY 10/1
Thursday, 1 October 2020
Feast of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, Carmelite Nun, Spiritual Writer, 1897
12 noon Virtual Noonday Prayer
12:10 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Judith 8:1-8; Psalm 119:1-8; St. Luke 21:1-4
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Homily: The Little Way by Fr. Pearson
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR WEDNESDAY 9/30
Wednesday, 30 September 2020
Feast of Saint Jerome, Translator of the Scriptures, Teacher, 420
5:30 pm Virtual Evening Prayer
6 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: 2 Timothy 3:14-17; Psalm 19:7-14; St. Luke 24:44-48
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Homily: Can Saints Be Grumpy? by Fr. Locke
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR TUESDAY 9/29
Tuesday, 29 September 2020
Feast of Saint Michael and All Angels
12 noon Virtual Noonday Prayer
12:10 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Genesis 28:10-17; Psalm 103:19-22; Revelation 12:7-12; St. John 1:47-51
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Homily: With Angels and Archangels by Fr. Locke
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR MONDAY 9/28
Monday, 28 September 2020
Feria (Proper 21)
5:30 pm Virtual Evening Prayer
6 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Job 1:6-22; Psalm 17:1-7; St. Luke 9:46-50
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Homily: A Welcoming Kingdom by Fr. Locke
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICE FOR SUNDAY 9/27
Sunday, 27 September 2020
The Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost
10 am Virtual Sung Mass
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Lectionary: Ezekiel 18:1-4, 25-32; Psalm 25:3-9; Philippians 2:1-13; St. Matthew 21:23-32
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Sermon: The Power of a Question by Fr. Straley (Transcript)
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Offering: Online Giving
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR SATURDAY 9/26
Saturday, 26 September 2020
Feast of Lancelot Andrewes, Bishop of Winchester, Spiritual Writer, 1626
9:30 am Virtual Morning Prayer
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Lectionary: Hosea 1:1—2:1; St. Luke 4:38-44
10 am Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: 1 Timothy 2:1-7a; Psalm 63:1-9; St. Luke 11:1-4
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Homily: Sharing His Heart by Fr. Pearson
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR FRIDAY 9/25
Friday, 25 September 2020
Feria (Proper 20)
12 noon Virtual Noonday Prayer
12:10 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Ecclesiastes 3:1-11; Psalm 144:1-4; St. Luke 9:18-22
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Homily: Lover of Every Human Face by Fr. Pearson
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR THURSDAY 9/24
Thursday, 24 September 2020
Feast of Our Lady of Walsingham
12 noon Virtual Noonday Prayer
12:10 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Isaiah 7:10-14; Magnificat; St. Luke 1:26-38
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Homily: The Walsingham Way by Fr. Straley
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR WEDNESDAY 9/23
Wednesday, 23 September 2020
Feria (Proper 20)
5:30 pm Virtual Evening Prayer
6 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Proverbs 30:5-9; Psalm 24:1-6; St. Luke 9:1-6
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Homily: Be Not Distracted by Fr. Straley
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR TUESDAY 9/22
Tuesday, 22 September 2020
Feria (Proper 20)
12 noon Virtual Noonday Prayer
12:10 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Proverbs 21:1-6, 10-13; Psalm 119:1-8; St. Luke 8:19-21
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Homily: Who Are My People? by Fr. Straley
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR MONDAY 9/21
Monday, 21 September 2020
Feast of Saint Matthew, Apostle and Evangelist
5:30 pm Virtual Evening Prayer
6 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Proverbs 3:1-6; Psalm 119:33-40; 2 Timothy 3:14-17; St. Matthew 9:9-13
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Homily: Doctors Are for the Ill by Fr. Locke
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICE FOR SUNDAY 9/20
Sunday, 20 September 2020
The Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost
10 am Virtual Sung Mass
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Lectionary: Jonah 3:10—4:11; Psalm 145:1-8; Philippians 1:21-30; St. Matthew 20:1-16
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Sermon: The Unfair Economy of God’s Kingdom by Fr. Straley (Transcript)
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Offering: Online Giving
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR SATURDAY 9/19
Saturday, 19 September 2020
Feast of Saint Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop of Canterbury, 690
9:30 am Virtual Morning Prayer
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Lectionary: Esther 2:5-8, 15-23; St. John 12:44-50
10 am Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: 2 Timothy 2:1-5, 10; Psalm 34:9-14; St. Matthew 24:42-47
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Homily: An Unlikely Choice by Fr. Pearson
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Facebook Video Recording of Morning Prayer and Low Requiem Mass
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR FRIDAY 9/18
Friday, 18 September 2020
Feast of Edward Bouverie Pusey, Priest, Tractarian, 1882
12 noon Virtual Noonday Prayer
12:10 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: 1 Peter 2:19-23; Psalm 106:1-5; St. Matthew 13:44-52
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Homily: Pusey v. Newman by Fr. Pearson
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR THURSDAY 9/17
Thursday, 17 September 2020
Feast of Saint Hildegard, Abbess of Bingen, Visionary, 1179
12 noon Virtual Noonday Prayer
12:10 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Ecclesiasticus 43:1-2, 6-7, 9-12, 27-28; Psalm 104:24-33; St. John 3:16-21
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Homily: Hildegard the Avant-Garde by Fr. Straley
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR WEDNESDAY 9/16
Wednesday, 16 September 2020
Feast of Saint Ninian, Bishop of Galloway, Apostle of the Picts, c. 432
5:30 pm Virtual Evening Prayer
6 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Isaiah 49:1-6; Psalm 96:1-7; St. Matthew 28:16-20
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Homily: A Little British History by Fr. Straley
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR TUESDAY 9/15
Tuesday, 15 September 2020
Feria (Proper 19)
12 noon Virtual Noonday Prayer
12:10 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: 1 Corinthians 12:12-14, 27-31; Psalm 100; St. Luke 7:11-17
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Homily: We All Have Something to Give by Fr. Straley
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR MONDAY 9/14
Monday, 14 September 2020
Feast of Holy Cross Day
5:30 pm Virtual Evening Prayer
6 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Isaiah 45:21-25; Psalm 98:1-4; Philippians 2:5-11; St. John 12:31-36a
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Homily: We Preach Christ Crucified by Fr. Locke
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICE FOR SUNDAY 9/13
Sunday, 13 September 2020
The Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost
10 am Virtual Sung Mass
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Lectionary: Genesis 50:15-21; Psalm 103:8-13; Romans 14:1-12; St. Matthew 18:21-35
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Sermon: Forgive Our Sins as we have been Forgiven by Fr. Straley (Transcript)
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Offering: Online Giving
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR SATURDAY 9/12
Saturday, 12 September 2020
Feast of John Henry Hobart, Bishop of New York, 1830
9:30 am Virtual Morning Prayer
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Lectionary: Job 38:1-17; St. John 11:45-54
10 am Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Titus 1:7-9; Psalm 78:3-8; St. Mark 8:1-13
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Homily: God's Steward by Fr. Pearson
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR FRIDAY 9/11
Friday, 11 September 2020
Feria (Proper 18)
12 noon Virtual Noonday Prayer
12:10 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: 1 Corinthians 9:16-27; Psalm 84; St. Luke 6:39-42
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Homily: Do You Want to Be Like Jesus? by Fr. Pearson
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR WEDNESDAY 9/9
Wednesday, 9 September 2020
Feast of Constance, Nun, and Companions, 1878
5:30 pm Virtual Evening Prayer
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Lectionary: St. John 11:1-16
6 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: 2 Corinthians 1:3-5; Psalm 116:1-8; St. John 12:24-28
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Homily: When Nuns Were a Novelty by Fr. Straley
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR TUESDAY 9/8
Tuesday, 8 September 2020
Feast of the Birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary
12 noon Virtual Noonday Prayer
12:10 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Proverbs 8:22-35; Psalm 45:1-2, 13-15; St. Matthew 1:1-16
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Homily: The Birth, Preparation, and Life of Mary by Fr. Straley
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR MONDAY 9/7
Monday, 7 September 2020
Feria (Proper 18)
9:30 am Virtual Morning Prayer
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Lectionary: Job 32:1-10, 19—33:1, 19-28; St. John 10:19-30
10 am Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: 1 Corinthians 5:1-8; Psalm 5; St. Luke 6:6-11
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Homily: Living Linked Lives by Fr. Locke
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICE FOR SUNDAY 9/6
Sunday, 6 September 2020
The Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost
10 am Virtual Sung Mass
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Lectionary: Ezekiel 33:7-11; Psalm 119:33-40; Romans 13:8-14; St. Matthew 18:15-20
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Sermon: Reconciliation and the Model Community by Fr. Straley (Transcript)
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Offering: Online Giving
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR SATURDAY 9/5
Saturday, 5 September 2020
Feria (Proper 17)
9:30 am Virtual Morning Prayer
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Lectionary: Job 22:1-4, 21—23:7; St. John 10:1-18
10 am Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: 1 Corinthians 4:6-15; Psalm 145:14-22; St. Luke 6:1-5
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Homily: Looking at Adam by Fr. Pearson
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10:45 am Virtual Holy Rosary
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR FRIDAY 9/4
Friday, 4 September 2020
Feria (Proper 17)
12 noon Virtual Noonday Prayer
12:10 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: 1 Corinthians 4:1-5; Psalm 37:1-11; St. Luke 5:33-39
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Homily: Commit It to Memory by Fr. Pearson
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR THURSDAY 9/3
Thursday, 3 September 2020
Feria (Proper 17)
12 noon Virtual Noonday Prayer
12:10 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: 1 Corinthians 3:18-23; Psalm 24:1-6; St. Luke 5:1-11
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Homily: Follow Me by Fr. Straley
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR WEDNESDAY 9/2
Wednesday, 2 September 2020
Feast of the Martyrs of Papua New Guinea, 1942
5:30 pm Virtual Evening Prayer
6 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: 1 Thessalonians 5:21b-24; Psalm 126; St. Luke 12:4-12
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Homily: Consider the Plight of the Christians in the East by Fr. Straley
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR TUESDAY 9/1
Tuesday, 1 September 2020
Feria (Proper 17)
12 noon Virtual Noonday Prayer
12:10 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: 1 Corinthians 2:10-16; Psalm 145:8-14; St. Luke 4:31-37
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Homily: Spiritual Warfare by Fr. Straley
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR MONDAY 8/31
Monday, 31 August 2020
Feria (Proper 17)
5:30 pm Virtual Evening Prayer
6 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: 1 Corinthians 2:1-5; Psalm 119:97-123; St. Luke 4:16-30
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Homily: Now That's a Mission Statement by Fr. Locke
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICE FOR SUNDAY 8/30
Sunday, 30 August 2020
The Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost
10 am Virtual Sung Mass
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Lectionary: Jeremiah 15:15-21; Psalm 26:1-8; Romans 12:9-21; St. Matthew 16:21-28
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Sermon: Take up Your Cross and Follow Me by Fr. Straley (Transcript)
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Offering: Online Giving
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR SATURDAY 8/29
Saturday, 29 August 2020
Feria (Proper 16)
9:30 am Virtual Morning Prayer
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Lectionary: Job 9:1 and 10:1-9, 16-22; St. John 8:12-20
10 am Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: 1 Corinthians 1:26-31; Psalm 33:12-21; St. Matthew 25:14-30
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Homily: Keeping up with Inflation by Fr. Pearson
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR FRIDAY 8/28
Friday, 28 August 2020
Feast of Saint Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Teacher, 430
12 noon Virtual Noonday Prayer
12:10 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Hebrews 12:22-24, 28-29; Psalm 87; St. John 14:6-15
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Homily: To the Glory of God by Fr. Pearson
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR THURSDAY 8/27
Thursday, 27 August 2020
Feria (Proper 16)
12 noon Virtual Noonday Prayer
12:10 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: 1 Corinthians 1:1-9; Psalm 145:1-7; St. Matthew 24:42-51
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Homily: Check Yourself by Fr. Straley
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR WEDNESDAY 8/26
Wednesday, 26 August 2020
Feria (Proper 16)
5:30 pm Virtual Evening Prayer
6 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: 2 Thessalonians 3:6-10, 16-18; Psalm 128; St. Matthew 23:27-32
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Homily: As Outward, So Inward by Fr. Straley
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR TUESDAY 8/25
Tuesday, 25 August 2020
Feria (Proper 16)
12 noon Virtual Noonday Prayer
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR MONDAY 8/24
Monday, 24 August 2020
Feast of Saint Bartholomew the Apostle
5:30 pm Virtual Evening Prayer
6 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Deuteronomy 18:15-18; Psalm 91:1-4; 1 Corinthians 4:9-15; St. Luke 22:24-30
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Homily: Answering the Call by Fr. Locke
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICE FOR SUNDAY 8/23
Sunday, 23 August 2020
The Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost
10 am Virtual Sung Mass
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Lectionary: Isaiah 51:1-6; Psalm 138; Romans 12:1-8; St. Matthew 16:13-20
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Sermon: Who Do You Say That I Am? by Fr. Straley (Transcript)
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Offering: Online Giving
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR SATURDAY 8/22
Saturday, 22 August 2020
Feria (Proper 15)
9:30 am Virtual Morning Prayer
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Lectionary: Job 3:1-26; St. John 6:41-51
10 am Virtual Low Requiem Mass
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Lectionary: 1 Corinthians 15:50-58; St. John 5:24-27
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Homily: All in the Family by Fr. Pearson
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR FRIDAY 8/21
Friday, 21 August 2020
Feria (Proper 15)
12 noon Virtual Noonday Prayer
12:10 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Ezekiel 37:1-14; Psalm 107:1-8; St. Matthew 22:34-40
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Homily: The Answer Is Always Love by Fr. Pearson
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR THURSDAY 8/20
Thursday, 20 August 2020
Feast of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, Abbot, Teacher, 1153
12 noon Virtual Noonday Prayer
12:10 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Ecclesiasticus 39:1-10; Psalm 139:1-9; St. John 15:7-11
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Homily: Above and Beyond for Christendom by Fr. Straley
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR WEDNESDAY 8/19
Wednesday, 19 August 2020
Feria (Proper 15)
5:30 pm Virtual Evening Prayer
6 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Ezekiel 34:1-11; Psalm 23; St. Matthew 20:1-16
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Homily: Consider Entertaining the Absurd by Fr. Straley
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR TUESDAY 8/18
Tuesday, 18 August 2020
Feria (Proper 15)
12 noon Virtual Noonday Prayer
12:10 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Ezekiel 28:1-10; Psalm 60:1-5; St. Matthew 19:23-30
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Homily: Who Then Can Be Saved? by Fr. Straley
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR MONDAY 8/17
Monday, 17 August 2020
Feria (Proper 15)
5:30 pm Virtual Evening Prayer
6 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Ezekiel 24:15-24; Psalm 79:1-8; St. Matthew 19:16-22
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Homily: Sometimes Less Is More by Fr. Locke
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICE FOR SUNDAY 8/16
Sunday, 16 August 2020
Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
10 am Virtual Sung Mass
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Lectionary: Isaiah 61:10-11; Psalm 34:1-9; Galatians 4:4-7; St. Luke 1:46-55
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Sermon: Mary’s Song of Praise as our Own Song by Fr. Straley (Transcript)
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Offering: Online Giving
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR SATURDAY 8/15
Saturday, 15 August 2020
Votive Mass of Mary
9:30 am Virtual Morning Prayer
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Lectionary: 1 Samuel 2:1-10; St. John 2:1-12
10 am Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Ecclesiasticus 24:9-12; Psalm 45:1-2, 13-15; St. Luke 11:27-28
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Homily: That Where I Am, You May Be Also by Fr. Pearson
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR FRIDAY 8/14
Friday, 14 August 2020
Feria (Proper 14)
12 noon Virtual Noonday Prayer
12:10 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Ezekiel 16:1-15, 59-63; Psalm 11; St. Matthew 19:3-12
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Homily: God's Mercy Endures For Ever! by Fr. Pearson
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR THURSDAY 8/13
Thursday, 13 August 2020
Feria (Proper 14)
12 noon Virtual Noonday Prayer
12:10 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Ezekiel 12:1-16; Psalm 39:11-15; St. Matthew 18:21—19:1
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Homily: The Math of Forgiveness by Fr. Locke
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR WEDNESDAY 8/12
Wednesday, 12 August 2020
Feria (Proper 14)
5:30 pm Virtual Evening Prayer
6 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Ezekiel 9:1-7 and 10:18-22; Psalm 113; St. Matthew 18:15-20
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Homily: Where Do We Find Jesus? by Fr. Locke
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR TUESDAY 8/11
Tuesday, 11 August 2020
Feast of Saint Clare of Assisi, Founder of the Minoresses (Poor Clares), 1253
12 noon Virtual Noonday Prayer
12:10 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Song of Songs 2:10-13; Psalm 63:1-8; St. Luke 12:32-37
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Homily: The Richness of Poverty by Fr. Locke
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR MONDAY 8/10
Monday, 10 August 2020
Feast of Saint Lawrence, Deacon at Rome, Martyr, 258
5:30 pm Virtual Evening Prayer
6 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: 2 Corinthians 9:6-10; Psalm 126; St. John 12:24-26
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Homily: Well Done Good and Faithful Servant by Fr. Locke
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICE FOR SUNDAY 8/9
Sunday, 9 August 2020
The Tenth Sunday after Pentecost
10 am Virtual Sung Mass
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Lectionary: 1 Kings 19:9-18; Psalm 85:8-13; Romans 10:5-15; St. Matthew 14:22-33
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Sermon: Eyes on the Prize by Fr. Locke
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Offering: Online Giving
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR SATURDAY 8/8
Saturday, 8 August 2020
Feast of Saint Dominic, Friar, Founder of the Order of Preachers, 1221
9:30 am Virtual Morning Prayer
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Lectionary: Judges 9:22-25, 50-57; St. John 2:13-25
10 am Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Romans 10:13-17; Psalm 96:1-7; St. John 7:16-18
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Homily: Sent! Proclaimed! Heard! Believed! Saved! by Fr. Pearson
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR FRIDAY 8/7
Friday, 7 August 2020
Feria (Proper 13) with Optional Commemoration of John Mason Neale, Priest, Scholar, Hymn Writer, 1866
12 noon Virtual Noonday Prayer
12:10 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Nahum 1:15, 2:2, and 3:1-3, 6-7; Psalm 124; St. Matthew 16:24-28
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Homily: Let Us Sing Unto the Lord by Fr. Pearson
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR THURSDAY 8/6
Thursday, 6 August 2020
Feast of the Transfiguration of Our Lord
12 noon Virtual Noonday Prayer
12:10 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Exodus 34:29-35; Psalm 99:5-9; 2 Peter 1:13-21; St. Luke 9:28-36
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Homily: It Pays to Stay Awake by Fr. Locke
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR WEDNESDAY 8/5
Wednesday, 5 August 2020
Feria (Proper 13)
5:30 pm Virtual Evening Prayer
6 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Jeremiah 31:1-7; Psalm 121; St. Matthew 15:21-28
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Homily: A Mother's Love by Fr. Locke
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR TUESDAY 8/4
Tuesday, 4 August 2020
Feria (Proper 13)
12 noon Virtual Noonday Prayer
12:10 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Jeremiah 30:1-2, 12-22; Psalm 102:16-22; St. Matthew 14:22-36
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Homily: Eyes on the Prize by Fr. Locke
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR MONDAY 8/3
Monday, 3 August 2020
Feast of the Finding of the Relics of Saint Stephen, 415
5:30 pm Virtual Evening Prayer
6 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Acts 6:8—7:2a, 51c-60, 8:1-2; Psalm 31:1-5; St. Matthew 23:34-39
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Homily: Stephen, Full of Grace by Fr. Locke
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICE FOR SUNDAY 8/2
Sunday, 2 August 2020
The Ninth Sunday after Pentecost
10 am Virtual Sung Mass
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Lectionary: Isaiah 55:1-5; Psalm 145:8-9, 14-21; Romans 9:1-5; St. Matthew 14:13-21
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Sermon: We Don't Have Enough by Fr. Locke
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Offering: Online Giving
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR SATURDAY 8/1
Saturday, 1 August 2020
Feria (Proper 12)
9:30 am Virtual Morning Prayer
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Lectionary: Judges 5:19-31; St. Matthew 28:11-20
10 am Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Jeremiah 26:11-16, 24; Psalm 140:1-5; St. Matthew 14:1-12
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Homily: Can You Hear What I'm Saying? by Fr. Pearson
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10:45 am Virtual Holy Rosary
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR FRIDAY 7/31
Friday, 31 July 2020
Feast of Saint Ignatius of Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus, 1556
12 noon Virtual Noonday Prayer
12:10 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: 1 Corinthians 10:31—11:1; Psalm 34:1-8; St. Luke 9:57-62
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Homily: Be Imitators of Christ by Fr. Pearson
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR THURSDAY 7/30
Thursday, 30 July 2020
Feast of William Wilberforce, Social Reformer, 1833
12 noon Virtual Noonday Prayer
12:10 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: 2 Samuel 12:1-10; Psalm 112:1-9; St. Matthew 25:31-40
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Homily: Don't Be a Goat by Fr. Locke
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR WEDNESDAY 7/29
Wednesday, 29 July 2020
Feast of Saint Mary, Saint Martha, and Saint Lazarus of Bethany
5:30 pm Virtual Evening Prayer
6 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Romans 12:9-13; Psalm 36:5-10; St. Luke 10:38-42
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Homily: Choosing the Good Portion by Fr. Locke
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR TUESDAY 7/28
Tuesday, 28 July 2020
Feria (Proper 12)
12 noon Virtual Noonday Prayer
12:10 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Jeremiah 14:17-22; Psalm 79:9-13; St. Matthew 13:36-43
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Homily: How Long, O Lord? by Fr. Locke
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR MONDAY 7/27
Monday, 27 July 2020
Feria (Proper 12)
5:30 pm Virtual Evening Prayer
6 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Jeremiah 13:1-11; Psalm 95; St. Matthew 13:31-35
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Homily: The Abundance of the Kingdom by Fr. Locke
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICE FOR SUNDAY 7/26
Sunday, 26 July 2020
The Eighth Sunday after Pentecost
10 am Virtual Sung Mass
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Lectionary: 1 Kings 3:5-12; Psalm 119:129-136; Romans 8:26-39; St. Matthew 13:31-33, 44-52
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Sermon: The Keys to the Kingdom by Fr. Locke
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Offering: Online Giving
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR SATURDAY 7/25
Saturday, 25 July 2020
Feast of Saint James the Apostle
9:30 am Virtual Morning Prayer
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Lectionary: Jeremiah 16:14-21; St. Mark 1:14-20
10 am Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Jeremiah 45:1-5; Psalm 7:1-10; Acts 11:27—12:3; St. Matthew 20:20-28
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Homily: Thunder and Humility by Fr. Pearson
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR FRIDAY 7/24
Friday, 24 July 2020
Feria (Proper 11) with Optional Commemoration of Thomas à Kempis, Priest, 1471
12 noon Virtual Noonday Prayer
12:10 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Jeremiah 3:14-18; Psalm 121; St. Matthew 13:18-23
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Homily: A Hundred-Fold Harvest by Fr. Pearson
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR THURSDAY 7/23
Thursday, 23 July 2020
Feria (Proper 11)
12 noon Virtual Noonday Prayer
12:10 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Jeremiah 2:1-3, 7-13; Psalm 36:5-10; St. Matthew 13:10-17
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Homily: Willful Ignorance by Fr. Locke
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR WEDNESDAY 7/22
Wednesday, 22 July 2020
Feast of Saint Mary Magdalene
5:30 pm Virtual Evening Prayer
6 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Judith 9:1, 11-14; Psalm 42:1-7; 2 Corinthians 5:14-18; St. John 20:11-18
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Homily: The Apostle to the Apostles by Fr. Locke
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR TUESDAY 7/21
Tuesday, 21 July 2020
Feria (Proper 11)
12 noon Virtual Noonday Prayer
12:10 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Micah 7:14-15, 18-20; Psalm 85:1-7; St. Matthew 12:46-50
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Homily: A New Family by Fr. Locke
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR MONDAY 7/20
Monday, 20 July 2020
Feast of Saint Margaret of Antioch, Martyr, 4th century
5:30 pm Virtual Evening Prayer
6 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Ecclesiasticus 2:2-11; Psalm 45:7-14; St. Matthew 12:38-42
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Homily: Here Be Dragons by Fr. Locke
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICE FOR SUNDAY 7/19
Sunday, 19 July 2020
The Seventh Sunday after Pentecost
10 am Virtual Sung Mass
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Lectionary: Isaiah 44:6-8; Psalm 86:11-17; Romans 8:12-25; St. Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43
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Sermon: The Danger of Purity by Fr. Locke
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Offering: Online Giving
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR SATURDAY 7/18
Saturday, 18 July 2020
Feria (Proper 10)
9:30 am Virtual Morning Prayer
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Lectionary: Joshua 6:1-14; St. Matthew 26:26-35
10 am Virtual Low Requiem Mass
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Lectionary: 1 Corinthians 15:50-58; St. John 5:24-27
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Homily: Life, Now and Then by Fr. Pearson
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICE FOR FRIDAY 7/17
Friday, 17 July 2020
Feria (Proper 10)
12:10 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Isaiah 38:1-6, 21; Psalm 6; St. Matthew 12:1-8
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Homily: A Bit of History by Fr. Pearson
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR THURSDAY 7/16
Thursday, 16 July 2020
Feria (Proper 10)
12 noon Virtual Noonday Prayer
12:10 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Isaiah 26:7-9, 12, 16-19; Psalm 102:12-22; St. Matthew 11:28-30
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Homily: To Serve You Is Perfect Freedom by Fr. Locke
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR WEDNESDAY 7/15
Wednesday, 15 July 2020
Feria (Proper 10)
5:30 pm Virtual Evening Prayer
6 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Isaiah 10:5-7, 13-16; Psalm 94:5-15; St. Matthew 11:25-27
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Homily: How Do We Know God? by Fr. Locke
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR TUESDAY 7/14
Tuesday, 14 July 2020
Feria (Proper 10)
12 noon Virtual Noonday Prayer
12:10 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Isaiah 7:1-9; Psalm 48; St. Matthew 11:20-24
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Homily: You Had Your Chance by Fr. Locke
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR MONDAY 7/13
Monday, 13 July 2020
Feria (Proper 10)
5:30 pm Virtual Evening Prayer
6 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Isaiah 1:10-17; Psalm 50:7-15; St. Matthew 10:34—11:1
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Homily: The Worship God Desires by Fr. Locke
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICE FOR SUNDAY 7/12
Sunday, 12 July 2020
The Sixth Sunday after Pentecost
10 am Virtual Sung Mass
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Lectionary: Isaiah 55:10-13; Psalm 65:9-14; Romans 8:1-11; St. Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23
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Sermon: The Surprising Kingdom of God by Fr. Locke
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Offering: Online Giving
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR SATURDAY 7/11
Saturday, 11 July 2020
Feast of Saint Benedict of Nursia, Abbot, Father of Western Monasticism, Patron of Europe, c. 550
9:30 am Virtual Morning Prayer
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Lectionary: Deuteronomy 34:1-12; St. Matthew 24:32-51
10 am Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Proverbs 2:1-9; Psalm 1; St. Luke 14:27-33
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Homily: A Rule of Life by Fr. Pearson
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR FRIDAY 7/10
Friday, 10 July 2020
Feria (Proper 9)
12 noon Virtual Noonday Prayer
12:10 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Hosea 14:1-9; Psalm 51:1-11; St. Matthew 10:16-23
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Homily: Many Voices by Fr. Pearson
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR THURSDAY 7/9
Thursday, 9 July 2020
Feria (Proper 9)
12 noon Virtual Noonday Prayer
12:10 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Hosea 11:1-9; Psalm 80:1-7; St. Matthew 10:7-15
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Homily: Here Comes the Kingdom by Fr. Locke
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR WEDNESDAY 7/8
Wednesday, 8 July 2020
Feria (Proper 9)
5:30 pm Virtual Evening Prayer
6 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Hosea 10:1-3, 7-8; Psalm 105:1-7; St. Matthew 10:1-7
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Homily: They Had Names by Fr. Locke
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR TUESDAY 7/7
Tuesday, 7 July 2020
Feria (Proper 9)
12 noon Virtual Noonday Prayer
12:10 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Hosea 8:4-7, 11-13; Psalm 115:1-10; St. Matthew 9:32-38
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Homily: Setting the Stage by Fr. Locke
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR MONDAY 7/6
Monday, 6 July 2020
Feria (Proper 9)
5:30 pm Virtual Evening Prayer
6 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Hosea 2:16-23; Psalm 138; St. Matthew 9:18-26
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Homily: Not Just a Healing by Fr. Locke
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICE FOR SUNDAY 7/5
Sunday, 5 July 2020
The Fifth Sunday after Pentecost
10 am Virtual Sung Mass
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Lectionary: Zechariah 9:9-12; Psalm 145:8-14; Romans 7:15-25a; St. Matthew 11:16-19, 25-30
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Sermon: To Serve You Is Perfect Freedom by Fr. Locke
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Offering: Online Giving
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR SATURDAY 7/4
Saturday, 4 July 2020
Feast of Independence Day
9:30 am Virtual Morning Prayer
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Lectionary: Ecclesiasticus 10:1-8, 12-18; James 5:7-10
10 am Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Deuteronomy 10:17-21; Psalm 145:1-9; Hebrews 11:8-16; St. Matthew 5:43-48
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Homily: Happy 4th! by Fr. Pearson
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR FRIDAY 7/3
Friday, 3 July 2020
Feria (Proper 8)
12 noon Virtual Noonday Prayer
12:10 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Amos 8:4-6, 9-12; Psalm 119:1-8; St. Matthew 9:9-13
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Homily: Desire by Fr. Pearson
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR THURSDAY 7/2
Thursday, 2 July 2020
Feria (Proper 8)
12 noon Virtual Noonday Prayer
12:10 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Amos 7:10-17; Psalm 19:7-10; St. Matthew 9:1-8
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Homily: The Power to Forgive by Fr. Locke
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR WEDNESDAY 7/1
Wednesday, 1 July 2020
Feria (Proper 8)
5:30 pm Virtual Evening Prayer
6 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Amos 5:14-15, 21-24; Psalm 50:7-15; St. Matthew 8:28-34
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Homily: We Know Who You Are by Fr. Locke
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR TUESDAY 6/30
Tuesday, 30 June 2020
Feria (Proper 8)
12 noon Virtual Noonday Prayer
12:10 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Amos 3:1-8 and 4:11-12; Psalm 5; St. Matthew 8:23-27
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Homily: Who Is This? by Fr. Locke
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR MONDAY 6/29
Monday, 29 June 2020
Feast of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, Apostles [Patrons of the National Cathedral, Washington, D.C.]
5:30 pm Virtual Evening Prayer
6 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Ezekiel 34:11-16; Psalm 87; 2 Timothy 4:1-8; St. John 21:15-19
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Homily: Pillars of the Church by Fr. Locke
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICE FOR SUNDAY 6/28
Sunday, 28 June 2020
The Fourth Sunday after Pentecost
10 am Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Jeremiah 28:5-9; Psalm 89:1-4, 14-17; Romans 6:12-23; St. Matthew 10:40-42
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Sermon: Sent in Power, Welcomed by Grace by Fr. Locke
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Offering: Online Giving
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR SATURDAY 6/27
Saturday, 27 June 2020
Feria (Proper 7)
9:30 am Virtual Morning Prayer
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Lectionary: Numbers 20:14-29; St. Matthew 21:1-11
10 am Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Lamentations 2:2, 10-14; Psalm 74:1-12, 21-24; St. Matthew 8:5-17
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Homily: I Cried Unto the Lord by Fr. Pearson
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR FRIDAY 6/26
Friday, 26 June 2020
Feria (Proper 7)
12 noon Virtual Noonday Prayer
12:10 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: 2 Kings 25:1-12; Psalm 137:1-6; St. Matthew 8:1-4
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Homily: Rage by Fr. Pearson
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR THURSDAY 6/25
Thursday, 25 June 2020
Feria (Proper 7)
12 noon Virtual Noonday Prayer
12:10 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: 2 Kings 24:8-17; Psalm 79; St. Matthew 7:21-29
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Homily: How Firm a Foundation by Fr. Locke
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR WEDNESDAY 6/24
Wednesday, 24 June 2020
Feast of the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist [Patron of the Cathedral and Diocese of Rhode Island]
5:30 pm Virtual Evening Prayer
6 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Isaiah 40:1-11; Psalm 85:7-13; Acts 13:14b-26; St. Luke 1:57-80
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Homily: Preparing the Way by Fr. Locke
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR TUESDAY 6/23
Tuesday, 23 June 2020
Feria (Proper 7)
12 noon Virtual Noonday Prayer
12:10 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: 2 Kings 19:9-21, 31-36; Psalm 48; St. Matthew 7:6, 12-14
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Homily: The Narrow Way by Fr. Locke
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR MONDAY 6/22
Monday, 22 June 2020
Feria (Proper 7)
5:30 pm Virtual Evening Prayer
6 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: 2 Kings 17:5-8, 13-18; Psalm 60; St. Matthew 7:1-5
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Homily: Seeing Around the Log by Fr. Locke
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICE FOR SUNDAY 6/21
Sunday, 21 June 2020
The Third Sunday after Pentecost
10 am Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Jeremiah 20:7-13; Psalm 69:7-19; Romans 6:1b-11; St. Matthew 10:24-39
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Sermon: A Fire In My Bones by Fr. Locke
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Offering: Online Giving
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR SATURDAY 6/20
Saturday, 20 June 2020
Feria (Proper 6)
9:30 am Virtual Morning Prayer
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Lectionary: Numbers 13:31—14:25; St. Matthew 19:1-12
10 am Virtual Low Requiem Mass
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Lectionary: 2 Chronicles 24:17-25; Psalm 89:20-33; St. Matthew 6:24-34
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Homily: God's Love to Sustain Us by Fr. Pearson
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR FRIDAY 6/19
Friday, 19 June 2020
Feria (Proper 6)
12 noon Virtual Noonday Prayer
12:10 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: 2 Kings 11:1-4, 9-20; Psalm 132:11-19; St. Matthew 6:19-23
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Homily: Generosity by Fr. Pearson
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR THURSDAY 6/18
Thursday, 18 June 2020
Feria (Proper 6)
12 noon Virtual Noonday Prayer
12:10 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Ecclesiasticus 48:1-14; Psalm 97; St. Matthew 6:7-15
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Homily: Teach Us to Pray by Fr. Locke
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR WEDNESDAY 6/17
Wednesday, 17 June 2020
Feria (Proper 6)
5:30 pm Virtual Evening Prayer
6 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: 2 Kings 2:1, 6-14; Psalm 31:21-27; St. Matthew 6:1-6, 16-18
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Homily: Holy Habits by Fr. Locke
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR TUESDAY 6/16
Tuesday, 16 June 2020
Feria (Proper 6)
12 noon Virtual Noonday Prayer
12:10 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: 1 Kings 21:17-29; Psalm 51:1-10; St. Matthew 5:43-48
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Homily: Above and Beyond by Fr. Locke
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR MONDAY 6/15
Monday, 15 June 2020
Feria (Proper 6)
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5:30 pm Virtual Evening Prayer
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Lectionary: St. Matthew 17:14-20
6 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: 1 Kings 21:1-16; Psalm 5:1-6; St. Matthew 5:38-42
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Homily: It's Not All About You by Fr. Locke
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICE FOR SUNDAY 6/14
Sunday, 14 June 2020
Corpus Christi: The Body and Blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ
10 am Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Deuteronomy 8:2-3, 14b-16a; Psalm 147:12-15, 19-20; 1 Corinthians 10:16-17; St. John 6:51-58
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Sermon: The Bread of Life by Fr. Locke
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Offering: Online Giving
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR SATURDAY 6/13
Saturday, 13 June 2020
Feria (Proper 5) with Optional Commemoration of Saint Anthony of Padua, Priest & Doctor, 1231
9:30 am Virtual Morning Prayer
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Lectionary: Numbers 3:1-13; St. Matthew 17:1-13
10 am Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: 1 Kings 19:19-21; Psalm 16:1-9; St. Matthew 5:33-37
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Homily: I'll Help You Find It! by Fr. Pearson
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR FRIDAY 6/12
Friday, 12 June 2020
Feria (Proper 5)
12 noon Virtual Noonday Prayer
12:10 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: 1 Kings 19:9-16; Psalm 27:10-14; St. Matthew 5:27-32
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Homily: Do I Have Your Attention Now? by Fr. Pearson
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR THURSDAY 6/11
Thursday, 11 June 2020
Feast of Saint Barnabas the Apostle
12 noon Virtual Noonday Prayer
12:10 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Isaiah 42:5-12; Psalm 112; Acts 11:19-30 and 13:1-3; St. Matthew 10:7-16
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Homily: More Than Meets the Eye by Fr. Locke
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR WEDNESDAY 6/10
Wednesday, 10 June 2020
Feria (Proper 5)
5:30 pm Virtual Evening Prayer
6 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: 1 Kings 18:20-39; Psalm 16:1, 8-12; St. Matthew 5:17-19
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Homily: The Heart of the Law by Fr. Locke
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR TUESDAY 6/9
Tuesday, 9 June 2020
Feria (Proper 5)
12 noon Virtual Noonday Prayer
12:10 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: 1 Kings 17:7-16; Psalm 4; St. Matthew 5:13-16
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Homily: Tangy, Visible Disciples by Fr. Locke
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR MONDAY 6/8
Monday, 8 June 2020
Feria (Proper 5)
5:30 pm Virtual Evening Prayer
6 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: 1 Kings 17:1-6; Psalm 121; St. Matthew 5:1-12
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Homily: The Blessings Are Here by Fr. Locke
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICE FOR SUNDAY 6/7
Sunday, 7 June 2020
Trinity Sunday: The First Sunday after Pentecost
10 am Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Genesis 1:1—2:4a; Psalm 8; 2 Corinthians 13:11-13; St. Matthew 28:16-20
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Sermon: An Invitation Into a Mystery by Fr. Locke
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Offering: Online Giving
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR SATURDAY 6/6
Saturday, 6 June 2020
Feria (Proper 4)
9:30 am Virtual Morning Prayer
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Lectionary: Ecclesiastes 5:8-20; St. Matthew 15:1-20
10 am Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: 2 Timothy 4:1-8; Psalm 71:7-16; St. Mark 12:38-44
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Homily: Union with Christ by Fr. Pearson
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR FRIDAY 6/5
Friday, 5 June 2020
Feast of Saint Boniface, Archbishop of Mainz, Missionary, Martyr, 754
12 noon Virtual Noonday Prayer
12:10 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Acts 20:17-28; Psalm 115:1-8; St. Luke 24:44-53
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Homily: Human Treasure by Fr. Pearson
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR THURSDAY 6/4
Thursday, 4 June 2020
Feria (Proper 4)
12 noon Virtual Noonday Prayer
12:10 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: 2 Timothy 2:8-15; Psalm 25:1-11; St. Mark 12:28-34
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Homily: Love God, Love Neighbor by Fr. Locke
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR WEDNESDAY 6/3
Wednesday, 3 June 2020
Feast of the Martyrs of Uganda, 1885-1887
5:30 pm Virtual Evening Prayer
6 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Hebrews 10:32-39; Psalm 138; St. Matthew 24:9-14
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Homily: Seeds of Faith by Fr. Locke
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR TUESDAY 6/2
Tuesday, 2 June 2020
Feast of Saint Justin, Martyr at Rome, c. 167 (transferred)
12 noon Virtual Noonday Prayer
12:10 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: 1 Corinthians 1:18-25; Psalm 16:5-11; St. John 12:44-50
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Homily: And the People Said, "Amen" by Fr. Locke
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR MONDAY 6/1
Monday, 1 June 2020
Feast of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary to Elizabeth (transferred)
5:30 pm Virtual Evening Prayer
6 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Zephaniah 3:14-18a; Psalm 113; Colossians 3:12-17; St. Luke 1:39-49
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Homily: Commonly Holy by Fr. Locke
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICE FOR SUNDAY 5/31
Sunday, 31 May 2020
The Day of Pentecost: Whitsunday
10 am Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Acts 2:1-21; Psalm 104:24-34, 36; 1 Corinthians 12:3b-13; St. John 20:19-23
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Sermon: The Pentecost of Saint Stephen's by Fr. Mead (Transcript)
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Offering: Online Giving
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR SATURDAY 5/30
Saturday, 30 May 2020
Saturday of the Seventh Week of Easter
9:30 am Virtual Morning Prayer
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Lectionary: Ezekiel 36:22-27; St. Matthew 9:18-26
10 am Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Acts 28:16-20, 30-31; Psalm 11:4-8; St. John 21:20-25
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Homily: A Book Still To Be Written by Fr. Pearson
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR FRIDAY 5/29
Friday, 29 May 2020
Friday of the Seventh Week of Easter
12 noon Virtual Noonday Prayer
12:10 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Acts 25:13-21; Psalm 103:1-2, 19-22; St. John 21:15-19
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Homily: The Healing of Saint Peter by Fr. Mead
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR THURSDAY 5/28
Thursday, 28 May 2020
Thursday of the Seventh Week of Easter
12 noon Virtual Noonday Prayer
12:10 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Acts 22:30, 23:6-11; Psalm 16:6-12; St. John 17:20-26
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Homily: That They All May Be One by Fr. Locke
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR WEDNESDAY 5/27
Wednesday, 27 May 2020
Feast of Saint Augustine, first Archbishop of Canterbury, 605
5:30 pm Virtual Evening Prayer
6 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: 2 Corinthians 5:17-20a; Psalm 66:1-8; St. Luke 5:1-11
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Homily: Pushing Off Into the Deep by Fr. Locke
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR TUESDAY 5/26
Tuesday, 26 May 2020
Tuesday of the Seventh Week of Easter
12 noon Virtual Noonday Prayer
12:10 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Acts 20:17-27; Psalm 68:9-10, 17-20; St. John 17:1-11a
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Homily: Saint Paul's Farewell by Fr. Mead
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICE FOR SUNDAY 5/24
Sunday, 24 May 2020
The Seventh Sunday of Easter: Sunday after Ascension Day
10 am Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Acts 1:6-14; Psalm 68:1-10, 32-35; 1 Peter 4:12-14, 5:6-11; St. John 17:1-11
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Sermon: The Gift of Patience by Fr. Pearson
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Offering: Online Giving
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR SATURDAY 5/23
Saturday, 23 May 2020
Saturday of the Sixth Week of Easter
9:30 am Virtual Morning Prayer
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Lectionary: Numbers 11:16-17, 24-29; St. Matthew 7:28—8:4
10 am Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Acts 18:23-28; Psalm 93; St. John 16:23b-28
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Homily: Mary, Mother of God by Fr. Pearson
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR FRIDAY 5/22
Friday, 22 May 2020
Friday of the Sixth Week of Easter
12 noon Virtual Noonday Prayer
12:10 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Acts 18:1-8; Psalm 98:1-4; St. John 16:20-23a
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Homily: Starting a Novena by Fr. Mead
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR THURSDAY 5/21
Thursday, 21 May 2020
Feast of the Ascension of Our Lord Jesus Christ
12 noon Virtual Noonday Prayer
12:10 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Acts 1:1-11; Psalm 47; Ephesians 1:15-23; St. Luke 24:44-53
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Homily: Filling All Things by Fr. Locke
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR WEDNESDAY 5/20
Wednesday, 20 May 2020
Wednesday of the Sixth Week of Easter
5:30 pm Virtual Evening Prayer
6 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Acts 17:15, 22—18:1; Psalm 148:1-2, 11-13; St. John 16:12-15
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Homily: The Spirit of Truth by Fr. Locke
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR TUESDAY 5/19
Tuesday, 19 May 2020
Tuesday of the Sixth Week of Easter
12 noon Virtual Noonday Prayer
12:10 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Acts 16:16-34; Psalm 138; St. John 16:5-11
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Homily: Adventures in Philippi by Fr. Mead
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICE FOR SUNDAY 5/17
Sunday, 17 May 2020
The Sixth Sunday of Easter: Rogation Sunday
10 am Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Acts 17:22-31; Psalm 66:7-18; 1 Peter 3:13-22; St. John 14:15-21
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Sermon: From Mars Hill to College Hill by Fr. Mead (Transcript)
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Offering: Online Giving
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Service Music (Recorded on 13 May 2020 by James Busby, Organist):
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR SATURDAY 5/16
Saturday, 16 May 2020
Saturday of the Fifth Week of Easter
9:30 am Virtual Morning Prayer
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Lectionary: Leviticus 23:23-44; St. Matthew 7:13-21
10 am Virtual Low Mass with Commemoration of May Departed
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Lectionary: Acts 16:1-10; Psalm 100; St. John 15:18-21
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Homily: God Will Give Us Our Heart's Desire by Fr. Pearson
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR FRIDAY 5/15
Friday, 15 May 2020
Friday of the Fifth Week of Easter
12 noon Virtual Noonday Prayer
12:10 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Acts 15:22-31; Psalm 57:6-12; St. John 15:12-17
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Homily: Keep It Simple by Fr. Mead
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR THURSDAY 5/14
Thursday, 14 May 2020
Thursday of the Fifth Week of Easter
12 noon Virtual Noonday Prayer
12:10 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Acts 15:7-21; Psalm 96:1-10; St. John 15:9-11
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Homily: Saved by Grace by Fr. Locke
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR WEDNESDAY 5/13
Wednesday, 13 May 2020
Wednesday of the Fifth Week of Easter
5:30 pm Virtual Evening Prayer
6 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Acts 15:1-6; Psalm 122; St. John 15:1-8
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Homily: A Living Faith by Fr. Locke
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR TUESDAY 5/12
Tuesday, 12 May 2020
Tuesday of the Fifth Week of Easter
12 noon Virtual Noonday Prayer
12:10 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Acts 14:19-28; Psalm 145:9-13; St. John 14:27-31a
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Homily: Peace in the Midst of Trouble by Fr. Mead
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICE FOR SUNDAY 5/10
Sunday, 10 May 2020
The Fifth Sunday of Easter
10 am Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Acts 7:55-60; Psalm 31:1-6, 17-18; 1 Peter 2:2-10; St. John 14:1-14
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Sermon: Saint Stephen: Jesus’s Witness by Fr. Mead (Video File Pt. 1, Video File Pt. 2, and Transcript)
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Offering: Online Giving
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Service Music:
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Jerusalem by C. Hubert H. Parry (Performed by Patrick Aiken and from the CD "Pipes Rhode Island" produced by First Pressing ©â„— 2007 The Rhode Island Chapter of the American Guild of Organists)
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Stephen being full of the Holy Ghost by Thomas Tomkins (From the CD "Stephen, Full of Grace" performed by the Schola Cantorum under the direction of James Busby)
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Ave Maria by Robert Parsons (From the CD "Stephen, Full of Grace")
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Prelude, Fugue, and Chaconne by Dieterich Buxtehude (Performed by Andrew Galuska and from the CD "Pipes Rhode Island")
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR SATURDAY 5/9
Saturday, 9 May 2020
Feast of Saint Gregory of Nazianzus, Bishop, Teacher, 389
9:30 am Virtual Morning Prayer
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Lectionary: Exodus 40:18-38; St. Matthew 5:38-48
10 am Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Wisdom 7:7-14; Psalm 19:7-14; St. John 8:25-32
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Homily: Gregory of Nazianzus by Fr. Pearson
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR FRIDAY 5/8
Friday, 8 May 2020
Friday of the Fourth Week of Easter
12 noon Virtual Noonday Prayer
12:10 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Acts 13:26-33; Psalm 2:6-12; St. John 14:1-6
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Homily: Following the Path by Fr. Locke
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR THURSDAY 5/7
Thursday, 7 May 2020
Thursday of the Fourth Week of Easter
12 noon Virtual Noonday Prayer
12:10 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Acts 13:13-25; Psalm 89:21-30; St. John 13:16-20
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Homily: Chain of Command by Fr. Locke
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR WEDNESDAY 5/6
Wednesday, 6 May 2020
Wednesday of the Fourth Week of Easter
5:30 pm Virtual Evening Prayer
6 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Acts 12:24-13:5a; Psalm 67; St. John 12:44-50
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Homily: Seeing God through Jesus by Fr. Locke
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR TUESDAY 5/5
Tuesday, 5 May 2020
Tuesday of the Fourth Week of Easter
12 noon Virtual Noonday Prayer
12:10 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Acts 11:19-26; Psalm 87; St. John 10:22-30
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Homily: A Church on the Move by Fr. Locke
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICE FOR SUNDAY 5/3
Sunday, 3 May 2020
The Fourth Sunday of Easter: Good Shepherd Sunday
10 am Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Acts 2:42-47; Psalm 23; 1 Peter 2:19-25; St. John 10:1-10
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Sermon: Jesus, the Rector and Shepherd of Our Souls by Fr. Mead (Video File and Transcript)
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Offering: Online Giving
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Service Music:
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Psalm 23 Anglican Chant by H. Walford Davies (From the CD "Stephen, Full of Grace" performed by the Schola Cantorum under the direction of James Busby)
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O clavis David by Richard Smert & John Trouluffe (From the CD "The Angel and the Girl are Met" performed by the Schola Cantorum under the direction of James Busby)
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR SATURDAY 5/2
Saturday, 2 May 2020
Feast of Saint Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, Teacher, 373
9:30 am Virtual Morning Prayer
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Lectionary: Exodus 25:1-22; St. Matthew 4:18-25
10 am Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: 1 John 5:1-5; Psalm 71:1-8; St. Matthew 10:22-32
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Homily: Defender of the Faith by Fr. Pearson
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR FRIDAY 5/1
Friday, 1 May 2020
Feast of Saint Philip and Saint James, Apostles
12 noon Virtual Noonday Prayer
12:10 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Isaiah 30:18-21; Psalm 119:33-40; 2 Corinthians 4:1-6; St. John 14:6-14
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Homily: They Said Yes by Fr. Locke
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR THURSDAY 4/30
Thursday, 30 April 2020
Thursday of the Third Week of Easter
12 noon Virtual Noonday Prayer
12:10 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Acts 8:26-40; Psalm 66:14-18; St. John 6:44-51
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Homily: Living Water, Living Bread by Fr. Locke
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR WEDNESDAY 4/29
Wednesday, 29 April 2020
Wednesday of the Third Week of Easter
5:30 pm Virtual Evening Prayer
6 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Acts 8:1b-8; Psalm 66:1-8; St. John 6:35-40
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Homily: Everyone Is Invited by Fr. Locke
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR TUESDAY 4/28
Tuesday, 28 April 2020
Tuesday of the Third Week of Easter
12 noon Virtual Noonday Prayer
12:10 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Acts 7:51—8:1a; Psalm 31:1-6; St. John 6:30-35
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Homily: A Stiff-Necked People by Fr. Locke
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICE FOR SUNDAY 4/26
Sunday, 26 April 2020
The Third Sunday of Easter
10 am Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Acts 2:14a, 36-41; Psalm 116:1-4, 11-16; 1 Peter 1:17-23; St. Luke 24:13-35
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Sermon: To Be an Ambassador for Christ by Fr. Pearson
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Offering: Online Giving
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Closing Voluntary: Fanfare by John Cook (Performed by James Busby and from the CD "Pipes Rhode Island" produced by First Pressing ©â„— 2007 The Rhode Island Chapter of the American Guild of Organists)
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR SATURDAY 4/25
Saturday, 25 April 2020
Feast of Saint Mark the Evangelist
9:30 am Virtual Morning Prayer
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Lectionary: Ecclesiasticus 2:1-11; Acts 12:25—13:3
10 am Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Isaiah 52:7-10; Psalm 2:7-10; Ephesians 4:7-8, 11-16; St. Mark 1:1-15
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Homily: A Bearer of Good News by Fr. Pearson
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR FRIDAY 4/24
Friday, 24 April 2020
Friday of the Second Week of Easter
12 noon Virtual Noonday Prayer
12:10 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Acts 5:34-42; Psalm 27:1-9; St. John 6:1-15
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Homily: Transformed Apostles by Fr. Locke
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR THURSDAY 4/23
Thursday, 23 April 2020
Feast of Saint George, Martyr, Patron of England, c. 304
12 noon Virtual Noonday Prayer
12:10 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Joshua 1:1-9; Psalm 3; St. John 8:21-29
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Homily: Here Be Dragons by Fr. Locke
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR WEDNESDAY 4/22
Wednesday, 22 April 2020
Wednesday of the Second Week of Easter
5:30 pm Virtual Evening Prayer
6 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Acts 5:12-26; Psalm 34:1-8; St. John 3:16-21
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Homily: God So Loved the World by Fr. Locke
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR TUESDAY 4/21
Tuesday, 21 April 2020
Feast of Saint Anselm, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1109
12 noon Virtual Noonday Prayer
12:10 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Romans 5:1-11; Psalm 139:1-9; St. Matthew 11:25-30
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Homily: Faith Seeking Understanding by Fr. Locke
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICE FOR SUNDAY 4/19
Sunday, 19 April 2020
The Second Sunday of Easter
10 am Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Acts 2:14a, 22-32; Psalm 16; 1 Peter 1:3-9; St. John 20:19-31
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Sermon: Saint Thomas the Loyal and Courageous by Fr. Mead (Video File and Transcript)
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Offering: Online Giving
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR SATURDAY 4/18
Saturday, 18 April 2020
Saturday of Easter Week
9:30 am Virtual Morning Prayer
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Lectionary: Exodus 13:17—14:4; St. Mark 12:18-27
10 am Virtual Low Mass with Commemoration of April Departed
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Lectionary: Acts 4:13-21; Psalm 118:14-18; St. Mark 16:9-15, 20
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Homily: Ambassadors for Christ by Fr. Pearson
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR FRIDAY 4/17
Friday, 17 April 2020
Friday of Easter Week
12 noon Virtual Noonday Prayer
12:10 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Acts 4:1-12; Psalm 116:1-9; St. John 21:1-14
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Homily: Let's Go Fishing by Fr. Locke
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR THURSDAY 4/16
Thursday, 16 April 2020
Thursday of Easter Week
12 noon Virtual Noonday Prayer
12:10 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Acts 3:11-26; Psalm 8; St. Luke 24:33-48
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Homily: "Let Us Walk Through the Door" by Fr. Locke
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR WEDNESDAY 4/15
Wednesday, 15 April 2020
Wednesday of Easter Week
5:30 pm Virtual Evening Prayer
6 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Acts 3:1-10; Psalm 105:1-8; St. Luke 24:13-35
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Homily: Were Not Our Hearts Burning? by Fr. Locke
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR TUESDAY 4/14
Tuesday, 14 April 2020
Tuesday of Easter Week
12 noon Virtual Noonday Prayer
12:10 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Acts 2:36-41; Psalm 33:17-21; St. John 20:11-18
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Homily: Jesus Knows Your Name by Fr. Locke
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR MONDAY 4/13
Monday, 13 April 2020
Monday of Easter Week
5:30 pm Virtual Evening Prayer
6 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Acts 2:14, 22b-32; Psalm 16:8-11; St. Matthew 28:9-15
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Homily: A Whole New Thing by Fr. Locke
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICE FOR SUNDAY 4/12
Sunday, 12 April 2020
The Sunday of the Resurrection: Easter Day
10 am Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Acts 10:34-43; Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24; Colossians 3:1-4; St. John 20:1-18
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Sermon: Easter Day 2020 by Fr. Mead (Video File and Transcript)
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Offering: Online Giving
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Service Music:
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Missa de Beata Maria Virgine: II. Gloria in Exelsis by Tomás Luis de Victoria (From the CD "The Angel and the Girl are Met" performed by the Schola Cantorum under the direction of James Busby)
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Christ our Passover (Plainsong, Mode VI) by Everett Titcomb (From the CD "Stephen, Full of Grace" performed by the Schola Cantorum under the direction of James Busby)
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Psalm 84 Anglican Chant by Benjamin Toth (From "Stephen, Full of Grace")
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICE FOR SATURDAY 4/11
Saturday, 11 April 2020
Great Vigil of Easter
7:30 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Exodus 14:10-31, 15:20-21; Psalm 114; Romans 6:3-11; St. Matthew 28:1-10
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Sermon: Easter Vigil 2020 by Fr. Mead (Video File and Transcript)
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Offering: Online Giving
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Service Music:
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Christ our Passover (Plainsong, Mode VI) by Everett Titcomb (From the CD "Stephen, Full of Grace" performed by the Schola Cantorum under the direction of James Busby)
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Missa de Beata Maria Virgine: I. Kyrie and V. Agnus Dei by Tomás Luis de Victoria (From the CD "The Angel and the Girl are Met" performed by the Schola Cantorum under the direction of James Busby)
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICE FOR FRIDAY 4/10
Friday, 10 April 2020
Good Friday
12 noon Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Isaiah 52:13–53:12; Psalm 22:11; Hebrews 10:16-25; St. John 18:1—19:42
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Sermon: Good Friday 2020 by Fr. Mead (Video File and Transcript)
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Offering: Online Giving
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Service Music:
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Corpus Christi by Peter Warlock (From the CD "Stephen, Full of Grace" performed by the Schola Cantorum under the direction of James Busby)
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I wonder as I wander arr. by Newton Wayland (From the CD "The Angel and the Girl are Met" performed by the Schola Cantorum under the direction of James Busby)
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Psalm 23 Anglican Chant by H. Walford Davies (From "Stephen, Full of Grace")
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2:30 pm Virtual Stations of the Cross
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3 pm Virtual Ringing of the Chimes
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICE FOR THURSDAY 4/9
Thursday, 9 April 2020
Maundy Thursday
7:30 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Exodus 12:1-4, 11-14; Psalm 116:1-2, 11-16; 1 Corinthians 11:23-26; St. John 13:1-17, 31b-35
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Sermon: Maundy Thursday 2020 by Fr. Mead (Video File and Transcript)
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Offering: Online Giving
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Service Music: Pange lingua by William Byrd (From the CD "Stephen, Full of Grace" performed by the Schola Cantorum under the direction of James Busby); Verses 1-2 (0:00-1:40), Verses 3-4 (1:41-4:25), and Verses 5-6 (4:26-7:46)
8:30-9:30 pm (approx.) Virtual Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR WEDNESDAY 4/8
Wednesday, 8 April 2020
Spy Wednesday (Wednesday of Holy Week)
5:30 pm Virtual Evening Prayer
6 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Isaiah 50:4-9a; Psalm 70; Hebrews 12:1-3; St. John 13:21-32
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Homily: And It Was Night by Fr. Locke
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR TUESDAY 4/7
Tuesday, 7 April 2020
Tuesday of Holy Week
12 noon Virtual Noonday Prayer
12:10 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Isaiah 49:1-7; Psalm 71:1-13; 1 Corinthians 1:18-31; St. John 12:20-36
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Homily: The Hour Has Come by Fr. Locke
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR MONDAY 4/6
Monday, 6 April 2020
Monday of Holy Week
5:30 pm Virtual Evening Prayer
6 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Isaiah 42:1-9; Psalm 36:5-11; Hebrews 9:11-15; St. John 12:1-11
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Homily: Lazarus Must Die – Again by Fr. Locke
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICE FOR SUNDAY 4/5
Sunday, 5 April 2020
Palm Sunday: The Sunday of the Passion
10 am Virtual Low Mass (Liturgy of the Palms and the Passion)
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Liturgy of the Palms Lectionary: Psalm 118:19-29; St. Matthew 21:1-11
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Liturgy of the Passion Lectionary: Isaiah 50:4-9a; Psalm 31:10-18; Philippians 2:5-11; St. Matthew 27:11-54
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Sermon: Palm Sunday 2020 by Fr. Mead (Video File and Transcript)
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Offering: Online Giving
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Offertory Anthem: My song is love unknown by Patrick Hadley (From the CD "Stephen, Full of Grace" performed by the Schola Cantorum under the direction of James Busby)
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR SATURDAY 4/4
Saturday, 4 April 2020
Saturday of the Fifth Week of Lent
9:30 am Virtual Morning Prayer
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Lectionary: Exodus 10:21—11:8; St. Mark 10:46-52
10 am Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Ezekiel 37:21-28; Psalm 85:1-7; St. John 11:45-53
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Homily: What Are We to Do? by Fr. Pearson
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR FRIDAY 4/3
Friday, 3 April 2020
Friday of the Fifth Week of Lent
12 noon Virtual Noonday Prayer
12:10 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Jeremiah 20:7-13; Psalm 18:1-7; St. John 10:31-42
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Homily: Fire in the Bones by Fr. Locke
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6 pm Stations of the Cross
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR THURSDAY 4/2
Thursday, 2 April 2020
Thursday of the Fifth Week of Lent
12 noon Virtual Noonday Prayer
12:10 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Genesis 17:1-8; Psalm 105:4-11; St. John 8:51-59
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Homily: Jesus Comes Before Abraham by Fr. Locke
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR WEDNESDAY 4/1
Wednesday, 1 April 2020
Wednesday of the Fifth Week of Lent
5:30 pm Virtual Evening Prayer
6 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Daniel 3:14-20, 24-28; Canticle 2; St. John 8:31-42
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Homily: The Truth Will Set You Free by Fr. Locke
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR TUESDAY 3/31
Tuesday, 31 March 2020
Tuesday of the Fifth Week of Lent
12 noon Virtual Noonday Prayer
12:10 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Numbers 21:4-9; Psalm 102:15-22; St. John 8:21-30
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Homily: Look to the Cross by Fr. Locke
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR MONDAY 3/30
Monday, 30 March 2020
Monday of the Fifth Week of Lent
5:30 pm Virtual Evening Prayer
6 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Susanna 1-9, 15-29, 34-62; Psalm 23; St. John 8:1-11
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Homily: Judgment with Mercy by Fr. Locke
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICE FOR SUNDAY 3/29
Sunday, 29 March 2020
The Fifth Sunday in Lent
10 am Virtual Great Litany & Low Mass
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Lectionary: Ezekiel 37:1-14; Psalm 130; Romans 8:6-11; St. John 11:1-45
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Sermon: The Raising of Lazarus by Fr. Mead (Audio File and Transcript)
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Offering: Online Giving
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR SATURDAY 3/28
Saturday, 28 March 2020
Saturday of the Fourth Week of Lent
9:30 am Virtual Morning Prayer
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Lectionary: Exodus 2:23—3:15; St. Mark 9:14-29
10 am Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Jeremiah 11:18-20; Psalm 7:6-11; St. John 7:37-52
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Homily: Who Do You Believe That I Am? by Fr. Pearson
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR FRIDAY 3/27
Friday, 27 March 2020
Friday of the Fourth Week of Lent
12 noon Virtual Noonday Prayer
12:10 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Wisdom 2:1a, 12-24; Psalm 34:15-22; St. John 7:1-2, 10, 25-30
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Homily: A Righteous Man by Fr. Locke
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6 pm Stations of the Cross
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR THURSDAY 3/26
Thursday, 26 March 2020
Thursday of the Fourth Week of Lent
12 noon Virtual Noonday Prayer
12:10 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Exodus 32:7-14; Psalm 106:6-7, 19-23; St. John 5:30-47
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Homily: Dilemma and Hope by Fr. Locke
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR WEDNESDAY 3/25
Wednesday, 25 March 2020
Solemnity of the Annunciation of Our Lord Jesus Christ
5:30 pm Virtual Evening Prayer
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Lectionary: St. John 1:9-14
6 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Isaiah 7:10-14; Psalm 40:1-11; Hebrews 10:5-10; St. Luke 1:26-38
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Homily: Called to Be Like Mary by Fr. Locke
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR TUESDAY 3/24
Tuesday, 24 March 2020
Tuesday of the Fourth Week of Lent
12 noon Virtual Noonday Prayer
12:10 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Ezekiel 47:1-9, 12; Psalm 46:1-7; St. John 5:1-18
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Homily: Do You Want to be Healed? by Fr. Mead
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR MONDAY 3/23
Monday, 23 March 2020
Monday of the Fourth Week of Lent
5:30 pm Virtual Evening Prayer
6 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Isaiah 65:17-25; Psalm 30:1-5, 11-13; St. John 4:43-54
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Homily: A New Heaven and a New Earth by Fr. Locke
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICE FOR SUNDAY 3/22
Sunday, 22 March 2020
The Fourth Sunday in Lent: Laetare Sunday
10 am Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: 1 Samuel 16:1-13; Ephesians 5:8-14; Psalm 23; St. John 9:1-41
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Sermon: A Journey from Darkness to Light by Fr. Mead
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Offering: Online Giving
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR SATURDAY 3/21
Saturday, 21 March 2020
Saturday of the Third Week of Lent
9:30 am Virtual Morning Prayer
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Lectionary: Genesis 47:27—48:7; St. Mark 7:1-23
10 am Virtual Low Mass with Commemoration of March Departed
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Lectionary: Hosea 6:1-6; Psalm 51:14-19; St. Luke 18:9-14
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Homily: From All Want of Charity, Deliver Us by Fr. Pearson
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR FRIDAY 3/20
Friday, 20 March 2020
Feast of Saint Cuthbert, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 687
12 noon Virtual Noonday Prayer
12:10 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: 2 Corinthians 6:1-10; Psalm 1; St. Matthew 6:24-33
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Homily: Jesus's Counsel in a Crisis by Fr. Mead
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR THURSDAY 3/19
Thursday, 19 March 2020
Feast of Saint Joseph, Husband of Mary
12 noon Virtual Noonday Prayer
12:10 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: 2 Samuel 7:4, 8-16; Psalm 89:1-4, 27-30; Romans 4:13-18; St. Luke 2:41-52
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Homily: Joseph the Dreamer by Fr. Locke
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR WEDNESDAY 3/18
Wednesday, 18 March 2020
Feast of Saint Cyril, Bishop of Jerusalem, 386
5:30 pm Virtual Evening Prayer
6 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Ecclesiasticus 47:8-10; Psalm 122; St. Luke 24:44-48
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Homily: Cyril, A Saint for Holy Week by Fr. Locke
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR TUESDAY 3/17
Tuesday, 17 March 2020
Feast of Saint Patrick, Bishop of Armagh, Patron of Ireland, c. 460
12 noon Virtual Noonday Prayer
12:10 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: 1 Thessalonians 2:2b-12; Psalm 97:1-2, 7-12; St. Matthew 28:16-20
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Homily: Saint Patrick's Breastplate by Fr. Mead
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICES FOR MONDAY 3/16
Monday, 16 March 2020
Monday of the Third Week of Lent
5:30 pm Virtual Evening Prayer
6 pm Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: 2 Kings 5:1-15b; Psalm 42:1-7; St. Luke 4:23-30
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Homily: It's Not That Complicated by Fr. Locke
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VIRTUAL FULL SERVICE FOR SUNDAY 3/15
Sunday, 15 March 2020
The Third Sunday in Lent
10:30 am Virtual Low Mass
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Lectionary: Exodus 17:1-7; Psalm 95; Romans 5:1-11; St. John 4:5-42
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Sermon: Encounters of the Divine Kind by Fr. Pearson
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Offering: Online Giving
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Sunday, 8 March 2020 >> Printable Transcript
The Second Sunday in Lent >> "Viva Voce" (Audio Recording)
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Saint Nicodemus
Fr. Mead | 10 am Solemn Mass
Genesis 12:1-4a; Romans 4:1-5, 13-17; St. John 3:1-17
In the Name of God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Ghost. Amen.
Nicodemus was a leader in Israel. He sat on the Sanhedrin, the supreme religious council which was soon to condemn Jesus and hand him over to Pilate. Nonetheless, Nicodemus had the eyes and ears to see and hear what Jesus was teaching and doing. He visited Jesus by night because he knew his fellow leaders’ hostility to Jesus. It was dangerous and he stayed off their radar screen and went to visit Jesus after dark. “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God: for no man can do these signs that you do, unless God is with him.”
Jesus replied that no one can see the kingdom of God except by being born again, or born from above. When Nicodemus, perhaps wearily, asked how can a man do that – absurdly by entering his mother’s womb a second time? – Jesus went further, saying one must be born of water and the Spirit to enter God’s kingdom. Water references cleansing, washing away the dirt of an old life – as in baptism. The Spirit is like the wind; it blows where it wills. You must breathe it in as fresh air. You must put up a sail and either tack or run with its power.
Nicodemus answered, how can these things be? But Jesus said this is only the beginning! The new birth by water and the Spirit is just the start of the journey. Heavenly things are yet to come. The Son of man from heaven will be lifted up, like Moses’ lifting up the bronze serpent on the pole in the wilderness to heal the Israelites of their snakebites.[1] Jesus will be lifted up on a cross, where all who look to him will be healed of sin and death. For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
That was a lot for one evening visit, enough for Nicodemus. But Nicodemus shows up at the end of the story, and we shall return to him.
Jesus was right to say, “Are you a teacher of Israel and yet you do not understand this?” Nicodemus should have remembered Father Abraham, whose life as we know it began at age 75, when he heeded God’s call to leave his settled life and go on an adventure with no return in the land of Canaan, the Promised Land to Abraham and his posterity. Talk about putting up a sail! Abraham fell down laughing when the Lord told him he and Sarah would become new parents at an age when, as Scripture says, they were as good as dead.
What is the message here? It says that God is God; that if God chooses to begin a new people with oldsters, a new life in an old man and an old woman, he can and will. The Spirit blows where it wills, and we cannot figure it out. It also says that we have before us, wherever we are on life’s way, the prospect, this very moment, of a fresh start, a new life, with the Lord. Consider how this applies to Saint Stephen’s Church at this moment in our history.
Listen to these words from Psalm 63. They seem to speak to the old and tired, to the world-weary, to the burned-out, to the doubting and skeptical: “O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee. My soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh also longeth after thee, in a barren and dry land where no water is… For thy loving kindness is better than the life itself: my lips shall praise thee.”[2]
Did you catch that? God’s presence, his loving kindness, is better than life itself. God’s experienced presence is eternal life. The experience of God’s grace is the new birth from above, the entry into God’s kingdom, here and now, every day, breaking into this perishing world with its exhausted kingdoms, and opening out into the glory of heaven.
Nicodemus was attracted by Jesus enough to visit him by night. He saw and heard plenty that night – enough so that when the chief priests and Pharisees prepared to condemn Jesus, Nicodemus protested the injustice of the proceedings. His is one of the good voices in Christ’s Passion, and the enemies of the Lord promptly accused Nicodemus of being a disciple of Jesus. In the end Nicodemus went to the tomb, along with Joseph of Arimathea, another member of the council who was a disciple of Jesus, with precious ointments for Jesus' body.[3]
Well there you go, Saint Nicodemus, led by decency and fairness into the camp of Jesus! Why do we imagine his name was remembered at all in the Gospel? I would love to meet this true son of Abraham and follower of Jesus, not by night, but when we have all the time in the world in the bright day of heaven.
In the Name of God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Ghost. Amen.
[1] Numbers 21:7-9
[2] Ps 63 1928 BCP (Coverdale) version.
[3] Jn 7:50; 19:39
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Sunday, 1 March 2020 >> Printable Transcript
The First Sunday in Lent >> "Viva Voce" (Audio Recording)
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Jesus: The One True Human Being
Fr. Mead | 10 am Great Litany and Solemn Mass
Genesis 2:15-17, 3:1-7; Romans 5:12-19; St. Matthew 4:1-11
In the Name of God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Ghost. Amen.
Today’s appointed lessons set in stark contrast the performance of our Lord Jesus Christ in the wilderness with Satan over against that of Adam and Eve in Paradise with the serpent. Let’s look at them and see what they have to do with us here and now.
First of all, our Lord Jesus Christ. His trial with Satan in the wilderness begins immediately after his Baptism by John the Baptist, and he is led by the Spirit to face this trial. He was not led into temptation; he was led into the wilderness to face his trials, an infinite difference. Note that Jesus successfully resists entering into the temptations by refusing each time to put God to the test, that is, to tempt God. The devil quotes scripture at Jesus, but Jesus, also referring to Scripture, goes much deeper. He enters into simple obedience.
Simple obedience is exactly what Adam and Eve fail to do in Paradise as they are tempted by Satan. God had told them not to eat of the fruit of the tree in the midst of the Garden, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, lest they die. The devil persuaded them to disobey: “You will not die. Your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God.” Well, they ate the fruit; their eyes were opened; and they were ashamed and hid themselves. In the end, God in his mercy expelled them from the Garden, lest they eat from the tree of life and live forever in a state of disobedience. They would die, but you could fairly call it a mercy killing. Death at least puts an end to sin and its sorrows. We their descendants have been living like that ever since.
My dad, when he would make a blunder, would say to us, “I’m only human, you know.” Yes, to err is human. What about Jesus Christ? As we see in the Gospel and hear elsewhere from the apostles, he was tempted in every way as we are, yet did not sin. He lived in obedience. He was called many things by his critics and foes: a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of sinners and keeper of bad company, a Sabbath and Law breaker, even a possessed madman and a blasphemer. Yet he maintained his obedience, his filial relationship, his Sonship, with God, so much that he called God his own Father. In each case he showed the accusations to be false and to proceed out of malice. So is Jesus human or not, if he was tempted as we are yet did not sin?
Actually Jesus is more human than we are, more fully and perfectly human, than Adam and Eve and all their fallen sons and daughters, including my dear dad, me and you. Here is some evidence. When you lie, or betray, or slander, or hate; when you take what is not yours, when you grab and get, when you give yourself over to greed or lust or some other inordinate affection or appetite; do you notice what happens in the aftermath? Do you feel good about yourself, fulfilled, that you are living as you were meant to live – at peace within, with God and with others? Or do you feel more like Adam and Eve felt in the aftermath of their disobedience? If you do not feel something amiss, it may show that you have a mental problem, as in lacking a conscience. I believe this all is evidence that we do not feel fulfilled when we sin; that in sin humanity is defaced and diminished. When Jesus refers to himself as the Son of Man, we might also think of Jesus as the One True Human Being.
The story of Adam and Eve is not just a story about our first parents. It is our story. It ends with those sad words from God, “Where are you?” as they hide from God and turn on each other, and the consequences are a world where we find trouble and sorrow.
But so is the Gospel of Jesus Christ our story, if we will have it. It is Good News. Jesus is the New Adam. n the words of today’s epistle, “Just as one man’s trespass led to condemnation for all, so one man’s act of righteousness leads to justification and life for all.” Justification here means a right relationship – with God, with oneself and with one another. What Jesus offers us is a fresh start by the gifts of his relationship to God and the infusion of his life into ours by means of faith and trust. The Good News is an invitation to live “in Christ.” Holy Communion is replete with this language.
My prayer for myself and for you this Lent is that we will rediscover or even discover for the first time the grace and peace and joy of faith in Christ; of a closer walk with God as we head towards Holy Week and Easter. I pray that when we get there, we will have seen more clearly what an awesome gift is on offer in Jesus Christ. May Jesus, the Victor in the wilderness, be our companion and savior all the way.
In the Name of God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Ghost. Amen.
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Sunday, 23 February 2020 >> Printable Transcript
The Last Sunday after the Epiphany >> "Viva Voce" (Audio Recording)
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Christ on the Mountaintop
Fr. Mead | 10 am Solemn Mass
Exodus 24:12-18; 2 Peter 1:16-21; St. Matthew 17:1-9
In the Name of God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Ghost. Amen.
We have come to the last of the Sundays following the Epiphany. Lent is about to begin with Ash Wednesday this week, and then we have five Lenten Sundays before Palm Sunday, Holy Week, and Easter. Holy Week and Easter focus our attention on the heart of the Gospel of Jesus, that is, his victory over sin and death through his own sacrificial death on Good Friday and his Resurrection from the dead on Easter.
The appointed Gospel for this last Sunday before Lent is always the Transfiguration of Jesus on the mountaintop as witnessed by the inner circle of his disciples, Peter, and the two brothers James and John. There is a three-year cycle of the story as told by Matthew (this year), Mark (next year) and Luke (the year after that). The evangelists agree on the facts although each also gives his own perspective.
There is a climb up a high mountain (though we’re not told its name; tradition has Mount Tabor as the place). Jesus takes Peter, James and John with him. This takes place about a week after Jesus has predicted his death and resurrection. When he and they get to the top, Jesus is transfigured before the eyes of the three disciples. Jesus’s clothes become dazzling white, and Moses and Elijah appear beside him in glory. Then, as Peter proposes to build tabernacles for Jesus, Moses and Elijah, a bright cloud overshadowed them, and a voice from the cloud said, “This is my Son, my Beloved, with whom I am well pleased; listen to him.” In fear the three disciples fell to the ground. But Jesus came and touched them and said, “Get up, and do not be afraid.” And when they did, they saw no one except Jesus. When they went back down the mountain, Jesus ordered them to tell no one about the vision they had seen “until after the Son of man has been raised from the dead.”
The vision looks past Lent into Easter. It was a sight to comfort and strengthen the disciples when they tried to make sense of what would happen to Jesus. That inner circle of disciples, Peter, James and John, had been privileged to accompany Jesus and see other wonders, like the raising of a young girl back to life. Now they were getting a preview of Jesus’s own Resurrection – not back into this life, but into eternal glory, after his voluntary death.
John, for example, in his Gospel, the Fourth Gospel after Matthew, Mark and Luke, reports Jesus saying that no one takes his life from him but he has power and authority from God to lay down his life. “I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it up again; this charge I have received from my Father.” This statement was illustrated when John, his brother James, and Peter witnessed Jesus’s Transfiguration on the mountain earlier on.
The Church wants us to keep all this in mind as we walk with Jesus through Lent, as we take note of his sacrifice. The Passion and the events of Holy Week upended and dismayed the disciples. They believed Jesus was the Christ, the Messiah, but their understanding of his Messiahship did not grasp the central thing. Jesus repeatedly forecast his death. He saw the necessity of the collision between the love of God which he embodied and the sin of the world which he came to confront and overcome. He saw that his death was his mission, his life’s work, whereas the disciples thought it was a disaster. But then, after Jesus began appearing to them alive after his death and his empty tomb, they began to see that it was God’s providence and plan all along.
Today we’ll sing the hymn, “Alleluia! Sing to Jesus…” In that hymn there is a stanza which praises Jesus in these words, “Thou on earth, both Priest and Victim, in the Eucharistic Feast.” What does it mean to say Jesus is both Priest and Victim? It means that Jesus presides over and offers the very things he undergoes in his suffering and death. The Passion is a breath-taking, heart-breaking thing. It is breath-taking because the Man of Sorrows is none other than Almighty God. It is heart-breaking because such grief is the price God pays in his love for sinners. But the Passion is not a tragedy; it is a victory. That, by the way, is why Dante calls his epic poem of Christ’s redemption The (Divine) Comedy and not The Divine Tragedy. It is a Comedy in the sense that it has joy and happiness as its ending, where, as the result of Jesus’s Victory, there is no more crying and sorrow and all tears are wiped away.
Priest and Victim. That is how we are to observe Lent. We see Jesus at the end, transfigured in Resurrection glory, with Moses and Elijah and all the saints, all who have loved the Lord’s appearing.
In the Name of God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Ghost. Amen.
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Sunday, 16 February 2020
The Sixth Sunday after the Epiphany >> "Viva Voce" (Audio Recording)
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The Bishop's Sermon
The Rt. Rev. W. Nicholas Knisely | 10 am Solemn Pontifical Mass
Deuteronomy 30:15-20; 1 Corinthians 3:1-9; St. Matthew 5:21-37
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Sunday, 9 February 2020
The Fifth Sunday after the Epiphany >> "Viva Voce" (Audio Recording)
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Enough Salt?
Fr. Pearson | 10 am Solemn Mass
Isaiah 58:1-12; 1 Corinthians 2:1-12; St. Matthew 5:13-20
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Sunday, 2 February 2020 >> Printable Transcript
Candlemas: The Presentation of Our Lord Jesus Christ in the Temple >> "Viva Voce" (Audio Recording)
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Saying the Name of Jesus, Out Loud
Fr. Mead | 10 am Solemn Mass
In the Name of God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Ghost. Amen.
The feast of the Presentation of Christ in the Temple, also known as the Purification of Saint Mary the Virgin, also known by its nickname Candlemas, is forty days after Jesus’s Nativity. This is according to the Law of Moses. According to that Law, the male child was to be circumcised on the eighth day (that would be January 1), and then presented with an offering in the Temple on the fortieth day, that would be today, February 2. It is worth noting that the Holy Family took the poor people’s option on that offering, presenting two doves or pigeons. So with this feast, the Christmas cycle concludes.
The Presentation is a major feast of Christ which the Book of Common Prayer says supersedes a regular Sunday. That is why at Saint Stephen’s the creche remains in place until February 2. It also means (this is my opinion here) that your Christmas thank-you notes are now late.
The scene in the Gospel is charming and symbolic. Two old people, Simeon and Anna, who were pretty much always in or around the Temple, took special note of the infant Jesus. The wonderful canticle, the Nunc Dimittis, which is said at Evensong, was first said by Simeon and penned by Saint Luke concerning the infant Lord.
There is a charming old text about this episode about Simeon as he took up the baby in his arms and praised him. The text says that the old man carried the young child; but the child governed the old man.
Mary, who also performed the rites of the Law for the mother of a newborn, together with Joseph and the others in the Temple, represents and personifies the Church, and this representation extends to this day. For what is it that we always have to present in the Temple of the Church, including this beautiful Temple of Saint Stephen’s? Is it not Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today and forever?
I began to realize how very important it is to understand the centrality of Jesus Christ is to the integrity of the Church’s worship, ministry and mission, and also to say it, and to repeat it, at Saint Thomas Church in Manhattan, where I served as rector for 18 years. We had many services, twenty each week, and six of them were choral services. It was like a choral basilica on Fifth Avenue. Many people came to these – wanderers, lookers, seekers, inquirers, ranging from the unbelieving to the devout, of all shapes and flavors. It dawned on me, when welcoming all these people, to say, each time, Welcome in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
It is Jesus Christ after all, who is the subject, the predicate, and the object of Christian speaking. The Church, whether we are speaking of the people or the buildings, belongs to Jesus Christ. So I always wanted to welcome all comers in his name; that is, to present Christ in his temple, and like our Lady Saint Mary, to purify things, including myself and my hearers, with the cleansing power of his name.
But I have come to see how relevant this welcome is everywhere. Not just in the big city on Fifth Avenue but here on College Hill and everywhere else, including my town of Narragansett at Saint Peter’s-by-the-sea. Some Churches, some Christians, seemed to stammer or even be tongue-tied over the use of this sacred name of our Lord. Let it never be the case here! Above all in an Anglo-Catholic parish such as Saint Stephen’s, everything is centered on Jesus Christ, with a reverent bow towards his mother Mary as the representative of the Church in its Christ-centeredness.
Today is the day of our Annual Meeting. I have a few more things to say, but not now or here; rather, in a few more words at that Meeting up in the Guild Hall. So for now, let us pray that our Lord Jesus Christ will bless us with his presence here and upstairs, and in due course may in turn present us to his Father as disciples who try to do his will.
In the Name of God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Ghost. Amen.
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Sunday, 26 January 2020
The Third Sunday after the Epiphany >> "Viva Voce" (Audio Recording)
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The Choice is Yours
Fr. Pearson | 10 am Solemn Mass
Isaiah 9:1-4; 1 Corinthians 1:10-18; St. Matthew 4:12-2
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Sunday, 19 January 2020 >> Printable Transcript
The Second Sunday after the Epiphany >> "Viva Voce" (Audio Recording)
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The Blessing of the Great and Living Water
Fr. Sturni | 10 am Solemn Mass
Isaiah 49:1-7; 1 Corinthians 1:1-9; St. John 1:29-42
Today’s Gospel from St. John continues the telling of the event of Jesus’s baptism begun last week.
Last week John the Baptist in Matthew says “I baptize you with water for repentance. But after me comes one who is more powerful than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.
This week we have just heard “I myself did not know him, but the one who sent me to baptize with water said to me, ‘He on whom you see the Spirit descend and remain is the one who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.’
If you can bear it, I’d like to revisit the Baptism of Jesus this morning in still, and yet another, or third, way: that is, through the lens of the Eastern Orthodox liturgy. In its celebration of Jesus’s Baptism the Orthodox Church makes clear, in distinction from our own, that Jesus’s Baptism – and our own -- is not only a cleansing from our private and personal sins, but more significantly, it is the work of God in the salvation of all creation.
In the West, we seem preoccupied with one half of a two part baptism. Both Matthew and John quote the Baptist as talking first about baptism in water for repentance, and then, secondly, about baptism “with fire and the Holy Spirit.” The problem is that we tend to latch on to the first – a baptism in water for repentance for sin—and almost wholly forget the second part – baptism with fire and the Holy Spirit. We focus, mostly, on being cleansed from sin, which was meant by John to be a preparation for something much greater, yet to come.
In many Episcopal Churches, if there are no parish candidates to be baptized on the Sunday of the Lord’s Baptism (that is, last Sunday), then the entire congregation renews their own Baptismal vows – and that might encourage this sense that Baptism is primarily personal and private. Renewing our baptismal vows comes to mean we pledge to try harder to live up to the calling we have as Christians. But “trying harder,” in my experience, is tiring, and, like trying to keep New Year’s Resolutions, depletes us of energy and optimism about ourselves very quickly. The second dimension -- being filled with the Holy Spirit and with fire -- doesn’t seem to figure at all into this scenario.
In Orthodoxy, by contrast, the heart of the liturgy for this day is The Blessing of the Great Waters. Description of the liturgy. Does that not sound like fun? Here the focus is not so much on the personal and private. Here, what takes place when Jesus steps into the water of the River Jordan has cosmic, not just private, significance. We are caught up in something far greater than ourselves.
The Orthodox include in their service a reading from Isaiah 35: Behold, our God renders judgment and will render it. He will come and save us. Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall hear. Then the lame shall leap like a deer, and the tongue of the dumb will speak clearly. For water shall burst forth in the desert, and a valley in the thirsty land. The waterless desert shall become meadows, and the thirsty land springs of water. There will be the gladness of birds, a habitation of reeds and marshes. A pure way shall be there, and it shall be called a holy way. But the redeemed shall walk in it, and those gathered by the Lord shall return and come to Zion with gladness, and exceeding joy will be on their head, and gladness shall possess them. Pain, sorrow, and sighing fled away. We are caught up here in the profundity of God’s salvation of the world.
The Orthodox commentary at this point reads “By His immersion in the Jordan, Christ sanctified not only the waters of the Jordan, but the whole nature of the waters, as the Church cries out in its hymns: “Christ hath appeared in the Jordan to sanctify the waters” (troparion of the forefeast); “Today the nature of the waters is sanctified” (troparion at the Blessing of the Waters). Since there is water everywhere, by sanctifying the waters, Christ thereby sanctified all of creation and the entire universe.”
What might all this mean for us? One obvious lesson is that preoccupation with self ignores the bigger picture God holds out to us.
One writer says: Early Catholic moral theology taught that there were three major sources of evil: the world, the flesh, and the devil. My moral theology professor always added emphatically: “In that order!” Yet, up to now, most Christians have placed almost all of our attention on the secondary “flesh” level. We have had little education in or recognition of what Paul meant by “the principalities of the world” and even less understanding of what he meant by “the ruler who dominates the very air” (Ephesians 6:12). The world and the devil basically got off scot-free for most of Christian history while individual humans carried the majority of the blame.” An emphasis on the frailty of the flesh deflects us from our larger calling to be ministers of God’s justice and mercy.
In other words, we can become preoccupied with very minor things. “Sin” comes to mean piccadillos: things we have said or done that might not be sins at all. We can come to have a super sensitivity to any act or word that only in our prurient imagination might be titillating -- and thereby something that we can falsely name concretely as sin, because that would give rise to its repudiation, and this would be to us a sign of our own virtue. These mental gymnastics the Church has recognized as a form of pride called “Scrupulosity.”
This is why the Orthodox, cosmic, celebration of Baptism is such a tonic for us in the West. A tonic, because: Understanding Christianity as “Being good,” besides being tiresome, leads to even more confusion. I was presiding at the funeral of a friend last month, and I was surprised to hear that he frequently said “I live life with no regrets.” What might that mean? I think he meant – in a good way, but because of a defective understanding of the faith -- that he refused to wallow in guilt. He refused to have his integrity violated for what some outside authority named as sinful.
For my part, I have lots of regrets – about not being a better spouse, father, priest, you name it. I do have regrets. But as a Christian, I don’t wallow in guilt – although I expect Mrs. Sturni sometimes thinks I don’t wallow in it quite enough – but we confess, ask for grace and move on. Mark Twain said “A person who has a clear conscience has a short memory.” Jesus himself said “Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone.” Goodness is a byproduct of a relationship of faith, not something we can even begin to aim for in itself.
The Blessing of the Great Waters is a tonic because it emphasizes that human beings change when they are swept up into something bigger than ourselves, not by being shamed into guilt, not by focusing only on repentance for our personal sins, but being in touch with a calling that touches and claims our imagination and aspiration. We need not be slaves to self-absorption; we are offered, through Christ’s sacrifice, the delight, energy and joy of Christian community and ministry, which is the Baptism of the Holy Spirit and of fire.
As examples of those caught up in something bigger than themselves, Let us end with a quick look, only briefly, at the two men, Andrew and Peter, at the end of today’s Gospel: John the Baptist said: “Look, here is the Lamb of God!” The two disciples heard him say this, and they followed Jesus. When Jesus turned and saw them following, he said to them, “What are you looking for?” They said to him, “Rabbi” (which translated means Teacher), “where are you staying?” He said to them, “Come and see.”
The scene is awkward: their level of interest in Jesus might only have been idle curiosity: “they followed him.” Jesus feels their presence, and turns around to confront them. He says “What are you looking for?” They are caught and come up with a lame and awkward response: “Where are you staying?”
At this point in their discipleship the brothers lack confidence and are a little –clumsy: they don’t know what to make of Jesus, of John the Baptist, of themselves. But they have the good sense to risk getting started – even if it’s only to ask in a bungling way “Where are you staying?” They sense something good is happening; they are intrigued.
Very graciously, Jesus accepts their effort with love and understanding (and perhaps with humor). He says “Come and see.” He invites them to walk with him and beside him, not behind him.
We also may lack confidence in our discipleship. We bungle about in our own minds wondering how to understand ourselves, how to let go of ourselves in order to enter God’s presence, how to love another person, how to be of use in the world, what to read, what to sacrifice for, who we should get to know, how we should spend our time. But be assured: [Then] the lame shall leap like a deer, and the tongue of the dumb will speak clearly. “For water shall burst forth in the desert, and a valley in the thirsty land.”
Jesus invites us, with Andrew and Simon Peter, still thirsting for understanding, into and through the waters of his baptism and our own. He says “I am the living water.” He senses our presence at Mass here and now, inquiring about him. He says “What are you looking for?” He invites us to walk with him, to see where he stays, to approach his Tabernacle and reach out for Holy Communion, to have supper with him, to be renewed by his Spirit daily, to be caught up in something truly grand. “Come and see.”
In nomine….
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Sunday, 12 January 2020 >> Printable Transcript
The First Sunday after the Epiphany: >> "Viva Voce" (Audio Recording)
The Baptism of Our Lord Jesus Christ
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The Mystery of Christ's Baptism
Fr. Mead | 10 am Solemn Mass
Isaiah 42:1-9; Acts 10:34-43; St. Matthew 3:13-17
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In the Name of God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Ghost. Amen.
The Baptism of Jesus by John the Baptist in the River Jordan is told by all four evangelists, each with his own perspective. Today it is Saint Matthew, whose account raises a question that might well occur to us. Jesus comes to John to be baptized, and John would have prevented him, saying, “I need to be baptized by you, and do you come to me?” John’s baptism was a washing from sin and a sign of repentance.
Jesus’s answer to John the Baptist is profound. “Let it be so now; for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness.” John seems in some way to understand, because at this he consents and baptizes Jesus. For years I have pondered what Jesus means here, and I believe this is the meaning: Jesus by being baptized is identifying, showing solidarity, with sinners. Even though Jesus is free from sin, he does this, because, as he says elsewhere, I have come not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. We will come back to this at the end.
Meanwhile, what happens as Jesus is baptized? There is a great epiphany, a manifestation or revelation, of God the Holy Trinity. The heavens are opened. The Spirit descends on Jesus in the form of a dove. A voice from heaven says, This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased. God manifests himself as the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Then the Holy Spirit drives Jesus into the wilderness where his Sonship, his filial relationship with the Father, will be tested before he begins his ministry. This anticipates what will happen, when the devil returns for the opportunity presented at the time of Jesus’s Passion and Sacrifice.
Jesus’s relationship with God, his nature and identity as the Son, have all been the case from the beginning. They do not begin at his Baptism; they are manifested by the epiphany at his Baptism. Jesus’s Sonship actually has no beginning, because he is eternally begotten of the Father before time. When Jesus was conceived through the faith of his mother, the blessed Virgin Mary, as she heard and received the Word of God, he was the incarnate Son of God. When he was in her womb, when he was born, when he was an infant and then a youth, onward as he grew up, Jesus was the Son of God and as a human being he was learning and undergoing his Sonship at each stage of his life.
Now, at his Baptism, Jesus is ready to begin his public ministry, and he does so by identifying with sinners. He does not sin, but he shows utter solidarity, he reveals the divine compassion, for the fallen human race. He is the sinner’s truest Friend because he has something of the most precious value to give us. This will become more and more evident as Jesus moves through his ministry. As Saint Peter says in our lesson from Acts, he goes about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him. The prophet Isaiah, many centuries before Jesus, in our first lesson foresees these works of the Messiah who is to come.
Sin is separation from God. As the apostle says, the wages of sin is death, because it cuts us off from life, which God wishes us to have eternally. The saddest words in the Bible for me come in Genesis. Having said it is not good for man to be alone, God creates Eve for Adam. Then they separate themselves from God by eating the forbidden fruit; and they hide when they hear the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day. Whereupon God says, Where are you? They are alone, again, in their own self-imposed exile from grace. Sin is our great corporate and personal enemy, and it is sin’s isolation from which Jesus came to save us. As he does his works, he heals the sick, makes the blind to see and the deaf to hear and the lame to walk, raises the dead, and give good news to the poor. He restores sinners to life and fellowship with God. All these are signs, epiphanies, of our Lord and Savior.
The apostle Paul, in his second letter to the Corinthians, describes this restoration to life wonderfully (II Corinthians 6:16-21) when he says that if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old (sin) has passed away, and the new (grace in Jesus) has come. Not only that, but Jesus has given to his disciples, to his church, this very ministry of reconciliation. It is what the Eucharist this morning manifests as we take part in the life-giving Body of Christ. We beseech you on behalf of Christ, says the apostle, be reconciled to God. And then he plumbs the depths of the Good News of Jesus Christ with these words: For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
This takes us back as I said to what Jesus said to John the Baptist about his being baptized as though he were a sinner. Let it be so now, for it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness. What happened on the cross? God made Christ to be sin who knew no sin. What happened at the empty tomb? God raised Jesus from the dead, and vindicated him as Lord and Savior. So Jesus has opened up his relationship to God to us, in order to restore us to fellowship, actually to re-integrate us into the Holy Trinity who revealed himself as Jesus was baptized. How can we fail to accept that invitation?
In the Name of God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Ghost. Amen.
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Sunday, 5 January 2020 >> Printable Transcript
The Epiphany of Our Lord Jesus Christ (anticipated) >> "Viva Voce" (Audio Recording)
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The Journey of the Magi
Fr. Mead | 10 am Solemn Mass
St. Matthew 2:1-12
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In the Name of God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Ghost. Amen.
Epiphany, the journey of the Magi, the Three Wise Men, to the newborn Christ in Bethlehem, is a major feast of the Church. It is the beginning of a new liturgical season until we reach Lent, and it is also the climax of Christmastide. So we do well today at Saint Stephen’s to anticipate the feast this second Sunday after Christmas Day. In the Eastern churches, Epiphany really is the celebration equal to or greater than the Nativity itself, wherein the Infant Jesus manifests his glory to the nations as personified by the Magi. This is also true in Spanish-speaking Christendom, where the Epiphany is as great a celebration as Christmas.
Epiphany means Manifestation, in this case the Manifestation of Christ to the Gentiles. Jesus thereby reveals himself, even as a newborn child, not only as Messiah of Israel but as Lord and God of the Gentiles, the non-Jewish peoples of the earth, who very soon after Christ and his Apostles became the preponderant members of his Church.
Saint Matthew’s story of the Journey of the Magi, which is unique to his Gospel, is full of meaning worth knowing and cherishing. First of all, he does not say there were three wise men, but tradition has assumed there were three because of the three gifts that were presented to Christ: gold, frankincense and myrrh. Tradition has added their three names, Caspar, Melchior, and Balthazar, representing the races of mankind. And the beloved hymn, “We Three Kings” actually puts this very clearly and beautifully, as each king describes his gift. Gold for a King. Frankincense for God. Myrrh for a Sacrifice.
A second thing to notice is that the Magi begin their journey by their Gentile arts and sciences. They are stargazers. They see a great star, or perhaps as some have fascinatingly argued, a great comet, crossing the sky. They somehow divine it is a king of the Jews to be born, and having seen his star in the east, make their way to Judea. T.S. Eliot’s poem “The Journey of the Magi,” is highly to be recommended as a meditation on their journey and their feelings as they also make an inward journey from seeking to believing.
When the Magi get to Judea, being kings they naturally go to King Herod, who rules Judea under the auspices of the overlords of the Roman Empire. “Where is he who is born king of the Jews? We have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him.” Herod is alarmed by this news, but he also is an instrument (though a dangerous one) of Providence as he summons the Jewish scribes to tell where the Scriptures say the Messiah, the Christ, is to be born. So we have gone from Gentiles arts to the Hebrew Scriptures. The answer from the prophet Micah is Bethlehem in Judea, King David’s hometown. So Herod, desiring to destroy the child, tells the wise men secretly, When you find him, come tell me where he is, that I may worship him also.
So the Magi, aided by both devout Gentile reason and by the revelation of Holy Scripture, and by the movement of the star, find Christ and his mother, and they present their three gifts. But they are warned in a dream not to return to Herod, and they go home by another way. God will also warn the Holy Family to flee, once Herod realizes that the wise men are not going to return to him. He will commit an atrocity, the Slaughter of the Innocents, which prefigures Jesus’s entire life of Sacrifice, especially at the end.
But the wise men return home by another way in a deeper sense. They have sought, and found, and worshiped Christ. They have made a long inward as well as a long outward journey. Eliot’s poem which I mentioned earlier has them say they returned to their places, their old kingdoms, no longer feeling at home “in the old dispensation, with an alien people clutching their gods.” They felt they had seen death as well as birth. They saw Christ’s birth, and in so seeing, they experienced a death, “our own death,” the death of their former way of life; and the speaker, speaking for the Magi as a whole, finishes, “I should be glad of another death.”
Once you have really seen Christ, you are not the same. You have seen a glory and a life that is meant to be yours but cannot be had unless you receive it as a gift. And the means of reception is itself also a gift, the gift of faith. Let us each cherish that gift, the gift of faith, and pray that above all we are given the gift of final perseverance to reach the end of our own journeys, wanting above all to go home to our Lord.
In the Name of God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Ghost. Amen.
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