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...
by Patricia Templeton | Mar 5, 2025 | Sermons, Tricia's Sermons
“Remember that you are dust and to dust you shall return.” Those somber words are at the heart of our Ash Wednesday service, a sobering reminder of our mortality. No matter how rich or powerful or beloved we may be, our end is the same. We all return to dust. I’ve...
by Patricia Templeton | Mar 2, 2025 | Sermons, Tricia's Sermons
On the top of a mountain, Jesus kneels in prayer as his friends struggle to stay awake. As he prays, Jesus is suddenly filled with radiant light, his very face aglow. Then two figures from another time and place appear, Israel’s two greatest prophets Moses...
by Patricia Templeton | Feb 23, 2025 | Sermons, Tricia's Sermons
Have you ever picked up a book, opened it about three-fourths of the way through and started reading? You don’t know the characters, the plot, the context. Even if you can tell that something important is happening it doesn’t quite make sense. To...
by Patricia Templeton | Feb 16, 2025 | Sermons, Tricia's Sermons
Blessed are the poor, we hear Jesus say today. Blessed are the hungry, those who weep, and those who are hated because they follow him. In these beatitudes, or blessings, Jesus is naming those on the margins, the outskirts of society, and saying that in God’s...
