Trinity Cathedral Episcopal Church

1 Peter 4:12-14; 5:6-11 A Sermon by the Very Rev. Bernard J Owens on May 21, 2023

1 Peter 4:12-14; 5:6-11

A Sermon by the Very Rev. Bernard J Owens on May 21, 2023

1 Peter 3:11-22 A sermon preached by the Rev. Adrienne Koch at Trinity Cathedral on the sixth Sunday of Easter 2023. Whether it’s the Timelord, Doctor Who, or the trans …

1 Peter 3:11-22

A sermon preached by the Rev. Adrienne Koch at Trinity Cathedral on the sixth Sunday of Easter 2023.

Whether it's the Timelord, Doctor Who, or the trans warp conduits of Star Trek's Borg or the middle-aged Chinese immigrant woman in the recent film Everything Everywhere All at Once, all these time and space traveling fantasy characters point us toward something true that writers of scripture have tried to convey before today's theories of time-travel and the multiverse ever existed.The cross of Christ was an outside-of-time event.

Biblical Greek has two common words for time: chronos (chronological time) and kairos (now time). "Kairos" means something like "everything everywhere all at once." And Kairos is used more often by writers of the New Testament than chronos because kairos describes God's timing; eternal timing. Outside of chronological time kinda stuff. The Apostle Paul tells us in Romans, "At just the right Kairos... Christ died for the ungodly." Christ's death is a kairos moment, a now moment, a God-moment outside of time and space.

Baptism is a Christian's entry point into the eternal sermon of Holy Saturday while in this life. Baptism allows us to begin living into Kairos time, now. And that's really good news for us. But what's really really good news for all people, The Gospel news, is that whenever and wherever human beings are, dead or alive, Christ always finds them.

John 14:1-14 A sermon by the Very Rev. Bernard J Owens on May 7, 2023 at Trinity Cathedral. If you believe in a judgmental, exclusive, capricious God who uses eternity …

John 14:1-14

A sermon by the Very Rev. Bernard J Owens on May 7, 2023 at Trinity Cathedral.

If you believe in a judgmental, exclusive, capricious God who uses eternity solely as leverage to make you behave, then you are almost certain to create some kind of hell for other people, and quite possibly yourself too.

If Jesus is our way, our truth, and our life, then we have a chance to create a little bit of heaven for those all around us, right here in the living present.

Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life; he offers a path a path that winds through this life and the next, that arcs through our prayers and our relationships and our worship and our love of our neighbor and our joy and our grief and our death and our resurrection.

Jesus is life, one of integration and grace that weaves together all facets of our lived and hoped-for reality into a single tapestry of love and compassion, one that is not by any means ripped apart by death.

There is no way to God or to heaven or to nirvana or to inner peace without incarnate, sacrificial, self-emptying love.

A sermon preached by the Very Rev. Bernard J Owens Sunday, April 30, 2023.

A sermon preached by the Very Rev. Bernard J Owens Sunday, April 30, 2023.

Luke 24: 13-35 A sermon preached by the Rev. Adrienne Koch Sunday, April 23, 2023 Jesus dies on Friday afternoon and rises by sunrise on Sunday, and this tells us …

Luke 24: 13-35

A sermon preached by the Rev. Adrienne Koch Sunday, April 23, 2023

Jesus dies on Friday afternoon and rises by sunrise on Sunday, and this tells us that the third day is a metaphorical concept that does not depend upon 24-hour cycles or how many times the sun chases the moon. Jesus' resurrection on the third day is like a compass pointing humanity toward where God is creating something new, and timing of the third day is always perfect, always right when it needs to be.

If circumstances in your life today have left you stranded in the pain and suffering of a Good Friday of the soul; If you feel like you're still waiting in the darkness, the foreboding unknowing of Holy Saturday, let this third Sunday of Easter remind you that the third dayis still now; you haven't missed Easter, your new life is pending, awaiting you to recognize as Pythagoras did, that "beatitude is found in the perfection of the numbers of the soul."

My friends, it is NOW the third day. So let the strong arms of our Triune God, that Great Builder of the cosmos, carry your burdens away today. Jesus himself said told us that burdens are light for him to carry.