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St. Michael’s Episcopal Church
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Sermon 9.24.2017
Sermon – September 24, 2017 Face of Christ, St. Michael’s Day Gospel: workers in the vineyard I was away from Maine for three weeks in June. One of the weeks was at a Benedictine monastery, at an icon making workshop. One of the brothers told me this story. A young seminarian was in spiritual formation. …
Sermon- 11th Sunday after Pentecost – August 20, 2017
11th Sunday after Pentecost, Charlottesville and Auburn St. Paul reminds all of us Christians, we were at first outsiders. We are the branch grafted on to the tree- the wild olive shoot, he says, grafted on to the original trunk. We grew and blossomed from the first call to the Jews. Remember the parable of…
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Sermon- July 9, 2017 – 5th Sunday after Pentecost
We could call it addiction, or obsession – or besetting sin: “I do not do what I want; I keep doing the very thing I don’t want… the very thing I hate.” I live with hurtful compulsions. Such unsettling actions surround us. Any child moving from the delights of infancy into the “terrible twos” is…
Sermon by the Rev. Dan Warren – January 29, 2017
Sermon on the MOUNT The setting of today’s gospel is significant. It’s the beginning of the Sermon on the MOUNT. Like Moses to Mt. Sinai, Jesus goes to a high place to be in the presence of God. He goes to bring his people on a new Exodus. The people hadn’t come from the palaces…
Living Local ~ Joining God
On May 21st, I attended a Diocesan workshop called Living Local: Joining God. It was held at Christ Church in Gardiner. I wanted to share some of what I learned at this workshop as I feel it is very relevant with where we are as Christians and we as a parish. We were asked to…
John the Baptist arrives with the cry of the hawk
Think of the different cries we hear in the wilderness: the cry of the hawk circling the sky, the murmur of the dove in the grass; a battle cry, a cry of grief; the cry of the warrior, the cry of the lost lover. All are in the passion of Advent. John the Baptist arrives…
60 Feast at Cell to Street BBQ
Headed by Calvin Dube, the Cell to Street Ministry hosted a BBQ on August 22nd at St. Michael’s Episcopal Church in Auburn, with 60 people attending. Family members from as far away as New York came to help released inmates celebrate their new lives. This was the 3rd year that the BBQ was held and…
A Sustaining Vision
A sermon by Fr. Ed Greene November 22, 1963, was the day President Kennedy was assassinated. Those of us who were alive back then can probably remember exactly what we were doing when we first heard the news. I was in music class at Bowdoin College and the professor announced, “The President has just been…
