Watch this sermon on our YouTube channel (Click Here) March 5, 2023, the Second Sunday in LentPenelope Bridges The story that St. John relates about Nicodemus and Jesus is the first in a series of four stories from John’s Gospel that steadily build dramatic tension towards the Passion and death of Jesus. This year we … READ MORE…
Watch this sermon our YouTube channel (Click Here) Rev. Richard Hogue Jr.2/22/2023 Ashes are such a powerful symbol. They can represent destruction, loss, and grief. They can also represent great possibility, like volcanic ash that makes soil bountifully fertile. Ashes can be the result of a good time, like the smoldering embers of a … READ MORE…
Watch this sermon on our YouTube channel (Click Here) Rev. Richard Hogue Jr.2/26/2023 This is going to be very different from most of my sermons, I’m going to be deeply vulnerable, not to be flashy, or edgy, but because I hope it inspires each of us to risk reaching to a deeper place. For … READ MORE…
Watch this sermon on YouTube (Click Here) February 19, 2023, Last Sunday after EpiphanyPenelope Bridges When I started thinking about this sermon, I started with the word Transfiguration. We call the last Sunday before Lent Transfiguration Sunday because, each year on this Sunday, we hear the story of Jesus on the mountaintop, conversing with Moses … READ MORE…
Click Here to watch sermon on YouTube February 5, 2023Penelope Bridges “You are the salt of the earth … you are the light of the world.” In today’s portion of the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus pays us a great compliment and in the same breath offers us a steep challenge. We are salt; we … READ MORE…
Watch on YouTube (Click Here) 1/29/2023Rev. Cn. Richard Hogue Jr. Before I get any further this morning, I want to offer a note of gratitude, especially to Bishop Susan, Dean Penny, and our Chapter. Last weekend, during our annual meeting, I had the high honor of being named a Canon of this cathedral. It … READ MORE…
January 22, 2023. Third Epiphany and Cathedral DayPenelope Bridges “Jesus went throughout Galilee,… proclaiming the good news of the Kingdom and curing every disease and every sickness among the people.” Every year at this time we hear this good news and the invitation from Jesus: “Repent, follow me.” We read of the dramatic response of … READ MORE…
January 8, 2023The Rev. Dr. Carol Worthing Today we celebrate The Baptism of Our Lord Sunday – and we will also celebrate our baptizand, Benjamin, in his baptism – so, in a sense, this message is for him – it’s really for all of us, though, and so I just want Benjamin to know – … READ MORE…
January 1, 2023, Holy Name of JesusPenelope Bridges Alleluia: Unto us a child is born: O come, let us adore him, Alleluia. Today we celebrate the Holy Name of our Lord. It’s appropriate that this feast is scheduled during the season of the nativity: we are still celebrating Christmas too. Jesus is given his name … READ MORE…
The Fourth Sunday of Advent, December 18, 2022Penelope Bridges Our King and Savior now draws near: come, let us adore him. Within the lifetime of my mother, the Magdalene Laundries were still operating in Ireland. You may have seen a movie about them some years ago, telling the story of a shameful episode in Ireland’s … READ MORE…