by Patricia Templeton | Feb 8, 2026 | Sermons, Tricia's Sermons
Epiphany 5AFebruary 8, 2026St. Dunstan’sThe Rev. Patricia Templeton “With malice towards none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in,...
by Patricia Templeton | Feb 1, 2026 | Sermons, Tricia's Sermons
Epiphany 4AFebruary 1, 2026St Dunstan’sThe Rev. Patricia Templeton “God had told you, O mortal what is good; and what does the Lord require of you, but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God.” It is the 8th century BCE and God is not...
by Patricia Templeton | Jan 18, 2026 | Sermons, Tricia's Sermons
Epiphany 2AJanuary 18, 2026St. Dunstan’sThe Rev. Patricia Templeton It is a scene that the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King would find all too familiar – protests across the country against the brutality of law enforcement agents – the killing of Renee Good, and the...
by Patricia Templeton | Jan 11, 2026 | Sermons, Tricia's Sermons
Epiphany 1AJanuary 11, 2026St. Dunstan’sThe Rev. Patricia Templeton One of the things that I learned in seminary many years ago is that in the Episcopal Church baptism is a one-time event. It doesn’t matter if you were baptized as an infant or an adult. It doesn’t...
by Patricia Templeton | Jan 4, 2026 | Sermons, Tricia's Sermons
EpiphanyJanuary 4, 2026St. Dunstan’sThe Rev. Patricia Templeton Once again, the church’s calendar is out of sync with the culture. The 12 Days of Christmas may be a popular song, but in reality to most of the world Christmas is long over. Those Christmas...
by Patricia Templeton | Dec 24, 2025 | Sermons, Tricia's Sermons
Christmas 2025December 24, 2025St. Dunstan’sThe Rev. Patricia Templeton It is good to be gathered here with you on this most wondrous night of the year, the night we celebrate the birth of a baby who will change the world. Everything about this evening is special –...
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 | 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.”...
