Cathedral Church of the Advent

Year B, Epiphany Last Mark 9:2-9; 2 Corinthians 3:7-17 UNEDITED Don’t you just love a full moon? We’re almost to a new moon right now, but there’s something magical about a full moon on a clear night, the moonlight so bright you feel like you could read, except you don’t want to because you just […]

[Above: Elisha Refusing the Gifts of Naaman, 1637, Pieter Fransz de Grebber] Year B, 6 Epiphany, 2 Kings 5:1-14 February 12, 2012 UNEDITED We live in a world of spiritual seeking.  Even those that we might consider to be the most secular of individuals will turn to spirituality in order to find the answers to […]

Year B, 5 Epiphany, Mark 1:29-39, I Cor 9:16-23 February 5, 2012 UNEDITED In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost.  Amen. What a beautiful day in the neighborhood! Wouldn’t you love to have been there that Sabbath day in Capernaum?  It all began with Jesus entering the […]

Year B, 4 Epiphany, Mark 1:21-28 UNEDITED  I have gone round and round preparing this sermon on Jesus exorcising an unclean spirit in Mark’s Gospel.  And I’m fresh out of funny stories about exorcisms.  The truth is, with all of our “modern sensibilities” we sometimes don’t really know what to do with these passages that […]