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?
The parable of the Pharisee and tax-collector is about two men praying. Much can be said about Christian prayer. The main emphasis today is on the mental and spiritual attitudes for prayer- and by extension, about attitudes for all of life. Like the two sons in the Parable of the Prodigal Son two weeks ago,…
Trinity 8 2019 In this morning’s Collect we read: “O GOD, whose never-failing providence ordereth all things both in heaven and earth” and the Epistle warms our hearts when it says: Romans viii. 12. BRETHREN, we are debtors (we owe,) not to the flesh (of which many live their life)… For if ye live after…
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…
Sermon Trinity 7 2019 Trinity 7 2019 Fr. Michael Cawthon Truth is what we seek but can we handle the Truth? We ask God this morning in the Collect: to increase in us “True Religion”…. In the Epistle we read that we have all – in the past “Yielded our “members” servants to uncleanness” But…
Ash Wednesday 2019 Fr Michael Cawthon The lesson appointed for the Epistle is written in book of Joel: Turn ye even to me…with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning…turn unto the Lord your God: for he is gracious and merciful. My friends, this is the first day of Lent…
Preached on January 22, 2023 Jesus’ Miracle at Cana, where He turns the water into wine, is an invitation to see who He is, what He is about, and how we can believe on Him as the Messiah. Last week we saw how part of the epiphany our Prayer Book wants us to have about Jesus…