by Patricia Templeton | Apr 30, 2022 | ANNOUNCEMENTS, News
Dear friends, This Sunday we will have our first annual parish meeting since 2019. We will have one service at 10 a,m., which will include the meeting. After the service there will be a potluck lunch, so bring a dish to share. The service sheet is attached. I look...
by Patricia Templeton | Apr 24, 2022 | Sermons, Tricia's Sermons
“A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.” This is the first, and will most likely be the only, time that I have quoted Joseph Stalin in a sermon. We are fast approaching a...
by Patricia Templeton | Apr 23, 2022 | ANNOUNCEMENTS, News
Dear friends, Attached is the service sheet for tomorrow’s worship, which will be a service of remembrance for those who have died from Covid. If you have someone who you’d like to have remembered it is not too late to send me the names....
by Patricia Templeton | Apr 19, 2022 | ANNOUNCEMENTS, News
Dear friends, What a powerful Holy Week and joyous Easter celebration we had! It takes so many people to make these services a reality. Many thanks to Cameron and the choir, who sang at five services in one week; to the altar guild, who set up for that many services;...
by Patricia Templeton | Apr 17, 2022 | Sermons, Tricia's Sermons
Utter nonsense. Foolishness. An idle tale. Every year we begin our Easter celebrations with shouts of joy: “Alleluia! Christ is risen!” we cry. “The Lord is risen, indeed. Alleluia!” As we make this joyful proclamation, we may think we are echoing the words with which...
by Patricia Templeton | Apr 16, 2022 | ANNOUNCEMENTS, News
Dear friends, The church is bustling this morning with preparations for the Easter Vigil tonight and tomorrow’s Easter morning. Flowers are being arranged, bulletins folded, the altar is being prepared. It will be lovely and I hope you can be here. For those who...
by Patricia Templeton | Apr 15, 2022 | Sermons, Tricia's Sermons
It didn’t have to end this way. A question that perhaps every Christian has asked at some point is this: Why did Jesus have to die on the cross? Or perhaps more to the point: What kind of God would allow, even demand, the torture and death of his own son? Writer Mary...
by Patricia Templeton | Apr 13, 2022 | ANNOUNCEMENTS, News
Dear friends, Tomorrow we begin what is called the Triduum, or the three days. These holiest days of the Christian year, beginning at sundown Thursday through sundown Sunday, recall the last night of Jesus’ life; his betrayal, arrest, and crucifixion; the...
