Septuagesima Sunday 2020

Sunday after Ascension 2019 I have borrowed from a sermon from St. Leo the Great, written around 1,500 years ago  (http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/360374.htm); and yet, it is still applicable to Christians today. (St. Leo the Great, also known as Pope Saint Leo I, was the first pope to be given the title “the Great.”He became a Deacon…

Sermon Trinity VI July 28 2019 Fr. Michael Cawthon Trinity 6 2019 We are dead unto sin our Epistle tells us and alive unto God through our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. The Collect tells us to Love God above all things. And Jesus warns his disciple’s in the Gospel reading that unless their reightousness…

Sermon Trinity 3 Fr. Michael Cawthon The readings for this week Sunday’s Sermon Father George spoke last week of “all things are now ready” and he encouraged each of us to “come” unto our Lord. Two weeks ago I spoke of a world WITHOUT GOD, that we would not know which way to go, nor…

  Today, we celebrate our paternal Feast Day, St. Michael and all Angels. St. Michael is mentioned four times in Scripture: In old and new testament.   In today’s collect reading we hear of an Everlasting; who ordained the services of Angels, and in the Lesson appointed for the Epistle – of a war in…

I am going to discuss the past few months at St. Michael’s as compared to what we hear today concerning God and Faith by many who say “faith is about “God and Me” The secular world says “who needs the church – it about my friend – you know – Jesus and me; however, we…