Archive for 2011
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Sermon preached by the Reverend Nicholas Lang St. Paul’s on the Green, Norwalk, CT The Second Sunday after Pentecost – June 26, 2011 Every Tuesday morning from 9 to 10 a group of us meets to read the scriptures appointed for the coming Sunday, to make some sense of them and offer creative ideas to […]
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Sermon preached by the Reverend Cindy Stravers St. Paul’s on the Green, Norwalk, CT The First Sunday after Pentecost: Trinity Sunday – June 19, 2011 Today is “Trinity Sunday,” the day set aside in the church calendar to celebrate the triune nature of God – three in one, one in three – Father, Son and […]
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Sermons Sermon preached by the Reverend Adam Yates St. Paul’s on the Green, Norwalk, Connecticut The Seventh Sunday of Easter – The Feast of the Ascension (transferred) – June 5, 2011 Every week, as we gather around the altar, in the middle of the Eucharistic Prayer, we stop and say as a community the Memorial […]
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Sermon preached by the Reverend Nicholas Lang St. Paul’s on the Green, Norwalk, CT The Day of Pentecost – June 12, 2011 Come, listen! The voice of the Spirit speaks within the whole of life. Hear and know a God whose love for us is as warm as a flame, reaching into every cold place […]
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Sermons Sermon preached by the Reverend Nicholas Lang St. Paul’s on the Green, Norwalk, Connecticut The Sixth Sunday after Easter – May 29, 2011 May each day hold a greeting from the Spirit of God, each night be visited by the dove of peace, and the life of God-with-us be lived in wisdom, truth, and […]
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Sermons Sermon preached by the Reverend Nicholas Lang St. Paul’s on the Green, Norwalk, Connecticut The Fifth Sunday after Easter – May 22, 2011 One day God was looking down at the earth and saw a lot of really bad behavior. God decided to send an angel down to check it out. When the angel […]
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Sermons Sermon preached by the Reverend Cindy Stravers St. Paul’s on the Green, Norwalk, Connecticut The Fourth Sunday after Easter – May 15, 2011 This Sunday, as you may have guessed from the readings we’ve heard, is known as “Good Shepherd Sunday.” It comes round once a year and focuses on the metaphor of shepherds […]
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Sermons Sermon preached by the Reverend Nicholas Lang St. Paul’s on the Green, Norwalk, Connecticut The Third Sunday after Easter – May 8, 2011 May God be with us in every footstep, Jesus be known to us in the breaking of bread and the Spirit touch our hearts in gentleness. Amen. If you have ever […]
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Homily Homily preached by the Reverend Adam Yates St. Paul’s on the Green, Norwalk, CT The Second Sunday of Easter – May 1, 2011 I’m afraid that Thomas has received a bad rap over the past few millennia. For many years he was the example of “weak” faith, faith that needed “proof.” More recently, liberal […]
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Sermons Sermon preached by the Reverend Adam Yates St. Paul’s on the Green, Norwalk, Connecticut Good Friday – April 22, 2011 This is the coming together of events and actions to a single moment. This is the event through which all future events are shaped and flower forth. Good Friday is the crisis of a […]
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