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?
Today, we celebrate our paternal Feast Day, St. Michael and all Angels. St. Michael is mentioned four times in Scripture: In old and new testament. In today’s collect reading we hear of an Everlasting; who ordained the services of Angels, and in the Lesson appointed for the Epistle – of a war in…
It is finished The sermon hymn today ends with: “It is finished!” hear him cry; Learn of Jesus Christ / to die” (Hymn #70) Yes my friends this Lenten Season is about “dying” in order that ye may live… With a palm in our hands we come today celebrating the coming of our Lord into…
Sermon preached by Fr. Allen On October 8, 2023, The Eighteenth Sunday after Trinity. I am sure all of us here are familiar with that psychological phenomenon known as the “doorway effect”? It’s the phrase coined by psychologists to describe the frustrating experience of entering a room and forgetting what we were going to do,…
Sermon Preached on the Twenty-Third Sunday after Trinity, November 12, 2023, at St. Michael the Archangel Anglican Church on the Gospel Lesson: Matthew xxii. 15ff “Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s; and unto God the things that are God’s.” In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the…
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 –…
Sermon:Maundy Thursday Institution of the Holy Eucharist by Jesus Christ With the Lord’s Supper we celebrate the commemoration of the Institution of the Holy Eucharist “on this night in which our Lord and Saviour was betrayed.” This is a remarkable gift from God, but before we go further… We have been reading for a week…