January 19, 2020: May God’s words alone be spoken, may God’s words alone be heard.  Amen. Six years ago this very day I walked into this pulpit for the first time as your Rector.  It was January 19, 2014 at 10:30am.  I remember it well.  To be sure, it was not my first time in…

January 12, 2020: May God’s words alone be spoken, may God’s words alone be heard.  Amen. Now, if you have been here these past few weeks of Christmastide and the Feast of the Epiphany, you would be right thinking that Jesus sure grows up fast, I mean we just celebrated his birth, then last week…

Christmas Eve – 2019: May God’s words alone be spoken, may God’s words alone be heard.  Amen. There’s a relatively new feature on iPhones called Night Shift. Introduced a few years ago, it “uses the clock and geolocation of your device to determine when it’s sunset in your location. Then it automatically shifts the colors…

December 15, 2019: May God’s words alone be spoken, may God’s words alone be heard.  Amen. Now I know it is still Advent, so hopefully the liturgical police will not come knocking down my door later, but I have to say I LOVE nearly all things Christmas – just look at this church!  Elves were…

December 8, 2019: May God’s words alone be spoken, may God’s words alone be heard.  Amen. As most of you know if you follow my page on Facebook, my little town in northwest New Jersey, about an hour from here, was hit badly by last week’s storm.  Heck, we even made NBC news.  Trees everywhere…

December 1, 2019: May God’s words alone be spoken, may God’s words alone be heard.  Amen. There are times while reading the gospel passage for the day when I want to pause and say, in my best Indigo Montoya voice “You just heard those words.  I do not think it means what you think it…

November 24, 2019: May God’s words alone be spoken, may God’s words alone be heard.  Amen. As I thought about the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday, one in which most of this nation will travel far and wide to share a meal with family, the readings from today kept coming to mind.  For I think there are…

November 10, 2019: May God’s words alone be spoken, may God’s words alone be heard.  Amen. Having celebrated All Saints, and survived the time change back to EST (barely), we are now in Advent.  For those who are new here, there is more information on the seven week Advent season in your bulletins (and for…

November 3, 2019 – All Saints Sunday: May God’s words alone be spoken, may God’s words alone be heard.  Amen. I love the music we sing today – For All the Saints, Ye Watchers and Ye Holy Ones, Ye holy Angels Bright, and of course, our Communion Hymn, I Sing A Song Of The Saints…

October 20, 2019: May God’s words alone be spoken, may God’s words alone be heard.  Amen. Now, I know it must be really hard to imagine something like what we heard about in the gospel today, right?  I mean, come on Jesus, there’s no such thing as a justice system that turns its back on…