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Sermons

Purification of BVM – Feb 2, 2020

The Purification of Mary – Feb 2 2020 The Collect  speaks of the   “only-begotten Son as this day being presented in the temple in the substance of our flesh,” The Epistle  Malachi iii. 1.  Speaks to those   whom  seek, the Lord, (for He) shall suddenly come to his temple,  as a  messenger of the

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Jan. 29th Epiphany III Sermon draft

Wedding at Cana Pentecost III January 29, 2020 Jesus could have began his public Ministry in a number of ways.  To establish his credentials as a teacher, he could have first preached The Sermon on the Mount.   To establish his power over demons, he first could have done an exorcism: how about a whole Legion

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Sermon for Nov. 10th Trinity xxi

  John 4:46 The Gospel reading this morning is about a nobleman 2000 years ago, and it is about us.This nobleman was probably somehow connected to the royal household, and in a way pretty much like many of us.  He had heard of the power of our Lord according to John 4:45, / just like many

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Sermon Sept 29 2019 Feast of St. Michael’s

  Make me, O Lord, a child again, So tender, frail, and small, In self possessing nothing, and In thee / possessing all.   O Saviour, make me small once more, That downward I may grow, And in this “heart of mine” restore The faith of long ago.   Make me, O Lord, a child

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Trinity 13 Sept15 2019 by Fr Michael Cawthon

Many of us have heard the phrase “he cannot see the forest for the trees…” Well this saying can sometimes apply Reading the Holy Scripture, as we get bogged down on this verse or that verse, this definition or that definition, or this commentary or that commentary or even the New Testament vs. the Old

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Trinity 12 Sept 8th Sermon Fr. Michael Cawthon

Last week we spoke of the Righteous as they will become abased (made lowered) and of the humble who will be exhalted (RAISED)… We spoke of humbleness before God being not sure in anything that we do, but only in His Power and mercy. In the Collect this morning we acknowledge that God is “always

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Sermon Trinity 10 Fr. Michael Cawthon

Today’s readings should cause all of us to stop and ponder. Jesus “wept” over what the Jews had done to Jerusalem and predicted the Temple’s destruction which would come some 40 years later. The Jewish people had been freed from their captivity of sin within Egypt and then led to the Promised Land. And yet

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Sermon (rought draft) Trinity 8 2019 Fr. Michael Cawthon

Trinity 8  2019 In this morning’s Collect we read: “O GOD, whose never-failing providence ordereth all things both in heaven and earth” and the Epistle warms our hearts when it says: Romans viii. 12.   BRETHREN, we are debtors (we owe,) not to the flesh (of which many live their life)… For if ye live after

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