by Steve Hedrick | Mar 29, 2016 | Text Sermons
Tonight we begin the Paschal Triduum—the three-day liturgy that re-presents the event by which we are given life and immortality. In these three days we will see humanity at its worst and at its best. We will see hatred, betrayal, conspiracy, evil—in its purest form....
by Steve Hedrick | Mar 21, 2016 | Text Sermons
How the mood changes in such a short time in this liturgy for Palm Sunday: The Sunday of the Passion. We begin with shouts of “Hosanna to the Son of David, Hosanna in the Highest,” and not even a half hour later we shout “Crucify him!” That isn’t exactly the way it...
by Steve Hedrick | Mar 14, 2016 | Text Sermons
In a recent study we did of a book by Os Guinness I was reintroduced to a famous speech given by British prime minister Winston Churchill. On the 26th of December, 1941, Winston Churchill became the first British prime minister to address a joint session of the...
by Steve Hedrick | Mar 7, 2016 | Text Sermons
One score years and six days ago our Fr. Marsden brought forth in this parish a new ministry, conceived as a call from God through yours truly, and dedicated to the proposition that all people are created and loved by God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Now we are...
by Steve Hedrick | Feb 22, 2016 | Text Sermons
Sermon delivered on the Occasion of the Observance of Absalom Jones The Preamble Several years back, when my now 10 year old granddaughter was 4, I happened, as just recently was the case, to be visiting my older daughter and family in Hong Kong. While at brunch one...
