The Sunday closest to St. Michael and All Angels September 26, 2021 Genesis 28:10-17, Revelation 12:7-12, John 1:47-51 Most people today think of angels in one of three ways. There are those who are firmly convinced that immensely powerful spiritual beings exist, and that they occasionally make their presence felt to human beings such as…
Pentecost XVII / Rentrée Sunday September 19, 2021 Proverbs 31:10-31 James 3:13 – 4:3,7-8a Mark 9:30-37 Well, on our annual parish calendar, which we put together last November, today is supposed to be Rentrée Sunday, so welcome back to Saint Esprit! It’s obviously not the sort of Sunday we were imagining, but nevertheless there is…
Pentecost XVI September 12, 2021 Proverbs 1:20-33 James 3:1-12 Mark 8:27-38 Soon after the events of September 11th, 2001, a native New Yorker was traveling on a bus on the West Side when she overheard two tourists conversing in front of her. They spoke about how much they loved New York, and how sad it…
FIFTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST September 5, 2021 Isaiah 35:4-7 James 2:1-10, (11-13), 14-17 Mark 7:24-37 One of the unfortunate by-products of this pandemic has been an increase in bad behavior in public. Not a day goes by without some story of people breaking into a rage about something. Perhaps it is the stress of how…