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Homily-2012-11-11
Homily preached by the Reverend Malinda Johnson St. Paul’s on the Green, Norwalk, CT The Twenty-Fourth Sunday after Pentecost – November 11, 2012 There have been lots of stories in the news lately about people trying to hoard gas. I saw one about a guy being arrested here in Norwalk, actually, for trying to leave […]
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Evensong Homily Preached by the Rev’d Nicholas Lang St. Paul’s on the Green, Norwalk, CT The Twenty-Fourth Sunday after Pentecost – November 11, 2012 “Keep watch over yourselves and over all the flock, of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church…” Over the past 275 years, this faith community, under […]
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Sermon preached by the Reverend Nicholas Lang St. Paul’s on the Green, Norwalk, CT The Twenty-Second Sunday after Pentecost – October 28, 2012 In the Name of God: Creator, Redeemer, Sanctifier. Amen. “I’m free. They check me every three months, but I’m free, I’m free. Thank God!” That’s the brief conversation I heard as I […]
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Sermon preached by Jordan Haynie, Seminarian Intern St. Paul’s on the Green, Norwalk, CT The Twenty-First Sunday after Pentecost – October 21, 2012 Are you able to drink the cup that I drink, or be baptized with the baptism I am baptized with? May I speak to the glory of our Great High Priest, Amen. […]
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Sermon preached by the Reverend Cindy Stravers St. Paul’s on the Green, Norwalk, CT The Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost – October 14, 2012 In the name of our living God. Amen. In our Godly Play classroom, the Sunday School class for our youngest kids, this box sits on one of the front shelves. It doesn’t […]
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Homily preached by the Reverend Malinda Johnson St. Paul’s on the Green, Norwalk, CT The Ninteenth Sunday after Pentecost – October 7, 2012 Truly I tell you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God as a little child will not enter it. Anyone remember that old commercial for a certain margarine that supposedly tasted […]
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Sermon preached by the Reverend Nicholas Lang St. Paul’s on the Green, Norwalk, CT The Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost – October 7, 2012 I’ll bet that in the midst of the present election season, there are many diverse opinions in this room about the economy, jobs, health care and the various candidates running for offices. […]
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Sermon preached by Anne M. Watkins St. Paul’s on the Green, Norwalk, CT The Feast of Saint Michael and All Angels (transferred) – September 30, 2012 In the name of God: Creator, Redeemer, Sanctifier. Amen. On the third day of General Convention last July, during the daily Eucharist, Bishop Michael Curry of the Diocese of […]
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Sermon preached by the Reverend Cindy Stravers St. Paul’s on the Green, Norwalk, CT The Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost – September 23, 2012 In the name of the living God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit Back in the day when I taught Sociology at a university in Michigan, I had my students participate in a […]
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Sermon preached by the Reverend Malinda Johnson St. Paul’s on the Green, Norwalk, CT The Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost – September 16, 2012 “How great a forest is set ablaze by a small fire! And the tongue is a fire.” Use your words. I remember when my kids were in pre-school, whenever a fight broke […]
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