July 3rd, 2022 : Fourth Sunday of Pentecost
Kings 5:1-14; Psalm 30; Galatians 6:(1-6),7-16 Luke 10:1-11,16-20 The Rev. Drew Brislin What does it mean to proclaim God’s kingdom? This past week I had the pleasure of serving as a chaplain for Sawyerville Day Camp. This was my third time to serve this particular ministry of our diocese in this capacity and it is a […]
December 5th, 2021 | Third Sunday in Advent
Advent 2C: Baruch 5:1-9; Canticle 4; Philippians 1:3-11; Luke 3:1-6 The Rev. Candice B. Frazer In C. S. Lewis’ The Screwtape Letters, Uncle Screwtape, or the Tempter as he might be known, counsels his young apprentice, Wormwood, on the most effective ways of leading humanity down a dark path. In his ninth letter he laments […]
Restore us O God of hosts; show the light of your countenance and we shall be saved.
My dogs are great at watching and waiting. They know the signs of feeding time. They will sit and watch, or maybe stare is a better word because they think they have Jedi mind skills, at the place where the cookies are kept in anticipation of their receiving one. They know when I am putting […]
November 29, 2020: The First Sunday of Advent, The Rev. Candice B. Frazer
Restore us O God of hosts; show the light of your countenance and we shall be saved. My dogs are great at watching and waiting. They know the signs of feeding time. They will sit and watch, or maybe stare is a better word because they think they have Jedi mind skills, at the place […]
November 22, 2020: Christ the King Sunday, The Rev. Drew Brislin
“Come, you that are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.” Today is Christ the King Sunday. It is the last Sunday in Pentecost before we begin a new church year and the season of Advent. So Happy New Year, kind of or Happy New Church […]
November 15, 2020: The Twenty-fourth Sunday after Pentecost, The Rev. Candice B. Frazer
Three slaves are entrusted with their master’s money. The first two are given more money than the third and they use it with wisdom and savvy to double the amount. The third is given only one talent and he buries it in the backyard and keeps it “safe” until his master returns. We don’t truly […]
November 8, 2020: The Twenty-third Sunday after Pentecost, The Rev. Candice B. Frazer
“As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.” – Joshua 24:17 Earlier this fall, we spent nine long weeks wandering in the wilderness in that space in between Egypt and the Promised Land. That time of the “in-between” is what is often referred to as liminal space. We know liminal space as […]
October 25, 2020: The Twenty-first Sunday after Pentecost, The Rev. Candice B. Frazer
This past week I suggested Tracy and I switch places—I would do all the invoices and she could preach on Sunday. She started laughing and told me that she knew exactly what she would preach—SINNERS! You’re all sinners. Not because she thought we were exceptional as sinners, per se, but because she had been brought […]
October 18, 2020: The Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost, The Rev. Candice B. Frazer
We finally made it. After nine long weeks of wandering in the wilderness, we have arrived—not in the Promised Land mind you*, but at the end of the Exodus readings in the lectionary. We started all those many weeks ago with Moses’ birth and rescue from the Nile only for him to go on the […]
October 11, 2020: The Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost, The Rev. Drew Brislin
Whenever I think of the story, the story of the golden calf, in the Exodus narrative, my mind inevitably conjures up images of Charlton Heston in the movie The Ten Commandments, which always seems to be showing on at least one channel during Easter. That image of a gray haired and bearded Heston coming down […]