Septuagesima Sunday 2020
Septuagesima 3 weeks before lent – Gospel reading on the workers in the vineyard – unfair?
St. Michael the Archangel Anglican Church, Matthews, NC 28105
St. Michael the Archangel Anglican Church, Matthews, NC
Septuagesima 3 weeks before lent – Gospel reading on the workers in the vineyard – unfair?

Sermon Trinity Sunday June 16 2019 Let’s discuss the holiday itself and its readings. First of all, this Feast Day we call Trinity Sunday, is not in recognition of “A’ special event. Our Lords Incarnation is celebrated by the event of His Birth, and His Resurrection by the events on Easter Morning, His Ascension and…

Circumcision 2019 Welcome to our Lord’s House of Prayer! As the world celebrates, we join with them, but most importantly we also recall the Circumcision of our Lord. As believers and servants of our Lord, tonight we worship God as we partake of His Body and Blood. This night/day we come to the Circumcision of…

It is finished The sermon hymn today ends with: “It is finished!” hear him cry; Learn of Jesus Christ / to die” (Hymn #70) Yes my friends this Lenten Season is about “dying” in order that ye may live… With a palm in our hands we come today celebrating the coming of our Lord into…
Sermon Preached for Christ the King Sunday (the Last Sunday in October) by Fr. Allen “We give thanks unto the Father, which hath… translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son.” In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen. In just four weeks, our Church…

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…

Our Church liturgy is full of themes that show us what Jesus did and said, thus revealing what we should do. Two weeks ago we were told to “Be Open” and last week we spoke of “being moved” and not losing our first love. Now this week’s Gospel speaks of God’s mercy as Jesus cleansed…