by Patricia Templeton | May 18, 2025 | Sermons, Tricia's Sermons
Easter 5CMay 18, 2025St. Dunstan’sThe Rev. Patricia Templeton It is the very first church controversy, and like the hundreds, if not thousands, since then, it threatens to tear apart the body of the faithful. The controversy is ancient, but its content could be pulled...
by Patricia Templeton | May 11, 2025 | Sermons, Tricia's Sermons
Easter 4CMay 11, 2025St. Dunstan’sThe Rev. Patricia Templeton Today is the fourth Sunday of the Easter season, a day that is known as Good Shepherd Sunday. Every year on this Sunday the prayers and scripture readings reference shepherds and their flocks. We see...
by Patricia Templeton | May 4, 2025 | Sermons, Tricia's Sermons
Easter 3CMay 4, 2025St. Dunstan’sThe Rev. Patricia Templeton Every Sunday one of the most dramatic moments of the Eucharist is the breaking of the bread. The loaf of bread is held up and broken, a symbol of Christ’s body broken for us. For a long time here at...
by Patricia Templeton | Apr 20, 2025 | Sermons, Tricia's Sermons
Easter 2025April 20, 2025St. Dunstan’sThe Rev. Patricia Templeton Early this Holy Week a post showed up on my Facebook feed that has stayed in my mind all week. It was by Joel Webbon, the pastor of a large church in Texas. Webbon describes himself as a hard-core...
by Patricia Templeton | Apr 18, 2025 | Sermons, Tricia's Sermons
Good FridayApril 18, 2025St. Dunstan’sThe Rev. Patricia Templeton “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” This opening line of the 22nd psalm is one of the most plaintive cries in scripture. It’s a cry of agony, despair, and abandonment. It...
by Patricia Templeton | Apr 13, 2025 | Sermons, Tricia's Sermons
Palm Sunday CSt. Dunstan’sApril 13, 2025The Rev. Patricia Templeton We entered church today at one of the highpoints of Jesus’ ministry – his entry into Jerusalem. Jesus is at long last coming into the city that is the political and religious center of life in his...
by Patricia Templeton | Mar 30, 2025 | Sermons, Tricia's Sermons
“There was a man who had two sons.” Thus begins what is probably the best known of all of Jesus’ stories, usually known as the parable of the prodigal son. This tale of the son who takes his inheritance, squanders it, then comes home to be greeted with joy by...
by Patricia Templeton | Mar 9, 2025 | Sermons, Tricia's Sermons
They have almost made it. After almost 40 years of in the wilderness, the Israelites are gathered on the plains of Moab, on the verge of entering the land that has been promised to them so long ago. After almost four decades of feeling lost, unsure, discouraged, and...
