Septuagesima Sunday 2020
Septuagesima 3 weeks before lent – Gospel reading on the workers in the vineyard – unfair?
St. Michael the Archangel Anglican Church, Matthews, NC 28105
St. Michael the Archangel Anglican Church, Matthews, NC
Septuagesima 3 weeks before lent – Gospel reading on the workers in the vineyard – unfair?
What a glorious week we have just completed. On Sunday, after the 10:30 service we decorated and prepared the Lord’s House Monday Night we had a Christmas family service and then a beautiful Midnight Mass Tuesday – Christmas Day we celebrated the Incarnation of our Lord Wednesday – We honored the first Christian Martyr –…
Ash Wednesday is this week, the beginning the Lenten Season for 2019. Last week Fr. George asked how two people can hear the same thing and yet receive two different messages, as well he spoke of hardened hearts and of dirt that is good ground, and that of bad. In today’s Collect we beseech that…
Advent 1 2018 Dec 2 2018 Fr. Michael Cawthon The name Advent comes from the Latin word “Ad-ven-tus” meaning “Coming” and the Advent Season has been set aside by the Church since the 6th century as being a time of preparation; for the Incarnation of Christ (His birth) and for His second “Coming.” To prepare…
Sermon for Trinity X The readings today paint a picture, of many people today, within and outside the church. With The Collect telling us that we are to “ask such things as shall please the Lord. What do we, – you and I -, daily ask of God? Are they things to satisfy our Will…
Sermon Whitsunday (Pentecost) As the law, / given 50 days after their Exodus from Egypt brought together the twelve tribes of Israel under a common moral standard – a law, thus this day we celebrate the spirit’s coming, 50 days after the resurrection of Jesus Christ, to the twelve Apostles to guide Christ’s Church as…
Happy Birthday to Christ’s Church! This day called Whitsunday was know as “Pentecost,” for the first four hundred years of the Church, Pentecost is a the word meaning fiftieth. When the Jewish people were in their formative years, God gave them the Ten Commandments, and the Jewish Pentecost was and is a celebration of the…