Archive for 2017
Resurrection: What It Means for Me – Easter Day, April 16, 2017
Sermon Preached by the Reverend Nicholas Lang St. Paul’s on the Green, Norwalk, CT Easter Day April 16, 2017 Alleluia! Christ is risen! The Lord is risen indeed. Alleluia! It is always with great joy and holy fanfare that the community of St. Paul’s on the Green gathers to celebrate the Resurrection of Jesus […]
Continue ReadingThe Story Was Saving His Life – The Great Vigil of Easter: April 15, 2017
Sermon Preached by the Reverend Peter Thompson St. Paul’s on the Green, Norwalk, CT The Great Vigil of Easter April 15, 2017 Let us pray. Take our lives and let them be Consecrated, Lord, to Thee; Take our moments and our days, Let them flow in ceaseless praise. Amen. A character in Salman Rushdie’s novel […]
Continue ReadingWashing Feet is Messy … and Intimate – Maundy Thursday, April 13, 2107
Sermon Preached by the Reverend Nicholas Lang St. Paul’s on the Green, Norwalk, CT Maundy Thursday April 13, 2017 In the Name of God, who creates and loves us, Jesus who saves and befriends us, and the Holy Spirit who sustains. us. Amen. An advertisement popped up in my email this week. On the left […]
Continue ReadingThe City in Turmoil – Palm Sunday: April 9, 2017
A Sermon Preached by the Reverend Peter Thompson St. Paul’s on the Green, Norwalk, CT Palm Sunday April 9, 2017 Let us pray. Take our lives and let them be Consecrated, Lord to Thee; Take our moments and our days, Let them flow in ceaseless praise. Amen. At least at first, it seems like a […]
Continue ReadingHoly Week and Easter at St. Paul’s
Palm Sunday: April 9 9:00 AM & 11:00 AM — two identical services: Blessing of Palms, Procession, and Solemn Eucharist with full choir Coffee & fellowship following ~ No Adult Forum 9:00 PM – Compline 20-Minutes of Soaring Gregorian Chant in a Candlelit Church Monday, April 10 6:00 pm — Evening Prayer Tuesday, April 11 […]
Continue ReadingTreating Terrorists – March 26, 2017
Sermon Preached by the Reverent Peter Thompson St. Paul’s on the Green, Norwalk, CT The Fourth Sunday in Lent March 26, 2017 Let us pray. O God before whose face we are not made righteous even by being right: free us from the need to justify ourselves by our own anxious striving, that we may […]
Continue ReadingShame, Shame, Shame: No Place for It in God’s Realm – March 19, 2017
A Sermon Preached by the Reverend Nicholas Lang St, Paul’s on the Green, Norwalk, CT The Third Sunday of Lent March 19, 2017 In the Name of God: Creator, Redeemer, Sustainer. Amen. Shame, shame, shame on you If you can’t dance too. Can’t stop me now hear what I say my feet wanna move so […]
Continue ReadingSermon by the Reverend Canon Timothy Hodapp – March 12, 2017
A Sermon preached by the Reverend Canon Timothy Hodapp (guest) Canon for Mission Collaboration, the Episcopal Church in Connecticut St. Paul’s on the Green, Norwalk, CT The Second Sunday in Lent March 12, 2017
Continue ReadingTaking Responsibility for Our Wrongdoing – March 5, 2017
A Sermon Preached by the Reverend Nicholas Lang St, Paul’s on the Green, Norwalk, CT The First Sunday of Lent March 5, 2017 In the Name of God: Creator, Redeemer, Sustainer. Amen. Once upon a time, an Eskimo hunter went to see the local missionary who had been preaching to the village. “I want to […]
Continue ReadingA Glittering Hope – Ash Wednesday, March 1, 2017
A Sermon Preached by the Reverend Peter Thompson St. Paul’s on the Green, Norwalk, CT Ash Wednesday March 1, 2017 In Thy Word, Lord, is my trust, To Thy mercies fast I fly; Though I am but clay and dust, Yet Thy grace can lift me high. Amen. Long ago, in a galaxy far far […]
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