Sermons

Palm Sunday AMarch 29, 2026St. Dunstan’sThe Rev. Patricia Templeton I have always loved Palm Sunday. The waving of palm branches and crosses. The ragtag procession into the church. The shouting of hosannas. The once-a-year singing of the hymn, All Glory Laud and...

Lent 5ASt. Dunstan’sMarch 22, 2026The Rev. Patricia Templeton       He calls it “the Dark Time.”  It began on April 17, 1975 – the day the Cambodian government was overthrown by the forces of the Khmer Rouge, led by the revolutionary Pol Pot. On that day,...

Lent 4AMarch 15, 2026St. Dunstan’sThe Rev. Patricia Templeton Jesus has just healed a man who has been blind from birth, and instead of rejoicing and marveling at this mighty act, the religious leaders of the day are appalled. For them, the miracle of sight is...

Lent 3AMarch 8, 2026The Rev. Patricia TempletonSt. Dunstan’s Once again, Jesus is breaking the rules. The religious leaders of the day would be horrified if they saw him talking to the Samaritan woman at the well. Certain things were very clear in the culture of...

Lent 1AFebruary 22, 2026St. Dunstan’sThe Rev. Patricia Templeton Baptisms are cause for celebration. After almost every baptism there is a special reception here, often followed by another party at home for family and friends. That was not the case for Jesus. He was...

Ash WednesdayFebruary 18, 2026St. Dunstan’sThe Rev. Patricia Templeton I came to church early this morning to prepare for our Ash Wednesday services and to write a sermon. I had something in mind.  But when I went to my office and turned on my computer the first...

Epiphany Last AFebruary 15, 2026St. Dunstan’sThe Rev. Patricia Templeton Today is the last Sunday of the season of Epiphany. The next time we will be in church is Wednesday, the first day of Lent. Epiphany is known as the season of light. It begins and ends the same...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 –...

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...

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.”...