by Patricia Templeton | Dec 21, 2025 | Sermons, Tricia's Sermons
Advent 4ASt. Dunstan’sDecember 21, 2025The Rev. Patricia Templeton Every three years on this day, the Fourth Sunday of Advent, our gospel reading takes a few moments to remember a crucial character in the birth we are about to celebrate, a character who soon fades...
by Patricia Templeton | Dec 17, 2025 | ANNOUNCEMENTS, News
Dear friends, One week from today is Christmas Eve! It always comes faster than I anticipate. Here is our schedule for the last days of Advent and the Christmas season: Sunday, December 21 — We will have one service at 10 a.m. on this Fourth Sunday of Advent....
by Patricia Templeton | Nov 30, 2025 | Sermons, Tricia's Sermons
Advent 1ANovember 30, 2025St. Dunstan’sThe Rev. Patricia Templeton On this first Sunday of Advent, the first day of the church year, we begin worship with this prayer: “Almighty God, give us grace to cast away the works of darkness and put on the armor of light.”...
by Patricia Templeton | Nov 18, 2025 | ANNOUNCEMENTS, News
Dear friends, I am happy to announce that I have hired a new choir director/organist. Brian Parks will begin with after the new year. Brian brings a wealth of experience to us. He has a degree in music composition from Berklee College of Music in Boston and a masters...
by Patricia Templeton | Nov 16, 2025 | Sermons, Tricia's Sermons
Proper 28CNovember 16, 2025St. Dunstan’sThe Rev. Patricia Templeton The town of Chartres in France is famed for its Gothic cathedral, widely acknowledged to be one of the finest structures in Europe. The first cathedral was built in that town sometime in the fourth...
by Patricia Templeton | Nov 9, 2025 | Sermons, Tricia's Sermons
Proper 27CNovember 9, 2025St. Dunstan’sThe Rev. Patricia Templeton The words are said at the beginning of every funeral in the Episcopal Church. And no matter how many hundreds of times I have heard or spoken them, they never fail to move me with their powerful...
by Patricia Templeton | Nov 8, 2025 | ANNOUNCEMENTS, News
Dear friends, This is one of the most beautiful weeks at St. Dunstan’s, when the leaves are in full glory. In past years those red leaves have turned the windows over the altar into a glorious swath of red. Some enthusiastic pruning of the trees has changed...
by Patricia Templeton | Nov 3, 2025 | ANNOUNCEMENTS, News
Dear friends, Several of you have asked for a photo of the art that I referenced in my sermon yesterday. It is pasted below. “From the Depths” by Canadian-American artist Wiliam Balfour Ker was painted in 1906, but it could be a political cartoon from our...
