Sermons

Funeral: Betty Boyd – August 24, 2017 Remember paschal candle? process in? process to garden? parish register ps. 23 in Unison (Gordon) – Leslie prayers – MP chalice bearer To the congregation: Betty found her way to Episcopal Church because something touched her deep within. At least a part of it has to do with communion . That is why we worship this way each week. You are all invited to come forward at communion. There will be little wafers and a chalice of wine that will be blessed – prayed over – not unlike we do when we say grace at a meal. If you are baptized, you are invited to receive it. Hold out hand. Offered the cup – some will dip the wafer in it. You may just come forward for a blessing. Homily Known Betty only a little more than a year. I wish I had known her longer. From the moment I was introduced, I knew she was someone special Testimony from Kim Loving. Family. Created traditions that bind together, that will be passed on by children, grand-children, niece...

Sermon: August 6, 2017 – St. Peter’s On this date In 1978 I was in process of moving to seminary I was generally aware of Transfiguration Day. I was aware that it was the anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima at the end of WW2, largely because of my interests and contacts during college. It was a Sunday that year, just like this year. I probably went to church, because I was moving my family to seminary. It was a kind of long circuitous route, a little like the one Mary Pat and I followed this summer! In 1978 I drove from Colorado to California to Oregon, seeing aunts and uncles and cousins, a brother and his life-partner, now wife, and my cousin Peter in Salem, Oregon. The Monday morning paper, Aug. 7, blared in huge letters the headline that Pope Paul VI had died the day before. More recently I have become aware that August 6 is the date on which President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act , guaranteeing African Americans the right to vote and making it illegal to i...