September 17, 2023, the Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost. Sermon preached by Rev. Katie Holicky.

9.17.23, Matthew 18:21-35                                The Rev. Katie Holicky, Assistant Rector  When I was in seminary we […]

September 10, 2023. The Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost. Sermon preached by Rev. Carolyn H. Eklund

For 15 years I worked for a pharmaceutical company. I started as a salesperson selling lab products to clinical and hospital labs in five states in the Mid-West. After a […]

August 27, 2023, the Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost. Sermon preached by Rev. Mary Lee Wile

“Who do you say I am?” Br. Eldridge Pendleton was my spiritual director for 20 years, until his death in 2015. One of the things he told me early on […]

August 20, 2023. On the Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost, a sermon preached by Rev. Katie Holicky

8/20/23, Matthew 15: (10-20), 21-28                          Rev. Katie Holicky, Assistant Rector  A while back, I heard this story about […]

August 13, 2023, Eleventh Sunday After Pentecost. Sermon preached by Rev. Mary Lee Wile

Ghost on the Water Let me start by putting today’s reading from Mathew’s gospel in context: Chapter 14 begins with the power and violence of Empire: sex, corruption, narcissism, debauchery […]

July 30, 2023. The 9th Sunday after Pentecost. Sermon preached by Rev. Carolyn H. Eklund

Year AFB; Proper 12; Genesis 29:15-28; Matthew 13:31-33, 44-52 7.30.2023             Several years ago, Bishop Stephen Lane introduced congregations in the Diocese of Maine to a practice called, “Living Local: […]

July 23, 2023, The 8th Sunday After Pentecost. Sermon preached by Rev. Mary Lee Wile

Wheat and weeds Long years ago, back in my first year of teaching at Mt. Ararat High School, I had a particularly troublesome student in one of my 11th grade […]

July 16, 2023, 7th Sunday After Pentecost. Sermon preached by Rev. Katie Holicky

7/16/23 Matthew 13:1-9,18-23     Rev. Katie Holicky, Assistant Rector It was impossible for me to read this passage from Matthew and not go right out to my garden, also […]