by Patricia Templeton | May 9, 2021 | Sermons, Tricia's Sermons
When I read today’s gospel a man came to mind who I have not thought about in many years. Ernest was a fellow parishioner at St. Ann’s in Nashville. He was a quiet, unobtrusive man, probably in his mid-80s. He had long...
by Patricia Templeton | May 2, 2021 | Sermons, Tricia's Sermons
Of all the technological advances in the past couple of decades the one that I love the most is probably the GPS, whether in my car or on my phone. As the men in my family will tell you, I have a notoriously bad sense of direction.. So I take great joy in typing...
by Patricia Templeton | Apr 11, 2021 | Sermons, Tricia's Sermons
It is the first Sunday after Easter, which every Episcopal priest knows means it’s Doubting Thomas Sunday. The gospel reading we heard today is exactly the same the Sunday after Easter every year. I’ll let you in on a...
by Patricia Templeton | Apr 4, 2021 | Sermons, Tricia's Sermons
Wow! I could just stand here and look at you all morning. It is so wonderful to see your faces, or at least your eyes. It is so wonderful to hear more than one or two voices joining together to say the prayers, the psalms, the responses. It is so...
by Patricia Templeton | Apr 2, 2021 | Sermons, Tricia's Sermons
Unimaginable suffering. Excruciating pain. Bottomless grief. Incomprehensible cruelty. All of that is on display on this most somber day when we remember the death, the execution, of Jesus. It’s a hard...
by Patricia Templeton | Mar 21, 2021 | Sermons, Tricia's Sermons
“Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.” These words are from the 51st Psalm, considered to be scripture’s quintessential prayer of penitence. Tradition says the verses were penned by the great King David after he...
by Patricia Templeton | Mar 14, 2021 | Sermons, Tricia's Sermons
Five hundred twenty five thousand six hundred minutes. Five hundred twenty five thousand moments so dear. Five hundred twenty five thousand six hundred minutes. How do you measure? Measure a year? In daylights? In sunsets? In midnights? In cups of coffee? In inches?...
by Patricia Templeton | Mar 7, 2021 | Sermons, Tricia's Sermons
The picture from my childhood remains amazingly clear in my mind all these years later. My illustrated Bible, given to me by my grandparents when I was three years old, has picture after picture of Jesus. There is the sweet, cherubic, haloed...
