Sermons from February 2021

2 Lent – February 28, 2021 Mark 8:31-38           With all of the loss and pain and isolation and death we’ve been experiencing through this past year, Peter’s rebuke feels especially poignant at this time. I can relate to Peter. In our reading from Mark, Jesus predicts his death for the first time.  “The Son of Man must undergo great suffering,” Jesus tells his disciples.  He must “be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be…

Blessed Absalom Jones Feast – February 14, 2021 Isaiah 42:5-9 and John 15:12-15          Not sure how many of you watched the annual Diocesan service for Blessed Absalom Jones yesterday, but it was beautiful, it was well done. And the sermon by The Rt. Rev. Carlye Hughes – she is the Bishop of the Diocese of Newark, was inspiring. The theme this year is “out of many, one”.  You may recall that the Great Seal of the United States has…