Le Rév. Sam Owen L’Église Haïtienne du Bon Samaritain, Bronx I have a fig tree. Two years ago this tree was in a pot in the back yard. During the first summer of the pandemic, The tree produced a lot of figs, maybe 40 or 50. But before the fruit became ripe these figs would…
Dear Members and Friends of St. Esprit,(Français en bas de page | French at the bottom of the page) Following a recent meeting of the Vestry, I am writing with some cautious good news about in-person attendance at our Sunday and weekday services. The Vestry unanimously agreed to the following decisions: You will no longer…
Lent II March 13, 2022 Genesis 15:1-18 Philippians 3:17 – 4:1 Luke 13:31-35 Whenever we come across the Pharisees in a reading from the Bible, we tend to think that they are all antagonistic to Jesus’ mission. They ask him difficult questions that are framed as a trap. They collude with people who conspire against…
Lent I March 6, 2022 Deuteronomy 26:1-11 Romans 10:8b-13 Luke 4:1-13 The ability to tell the difference between good and evil or the difference between truth and lies isn’t as easy as we often wish it to be. The current war in Ukraine is one of the most dramatic illustrations of this fact. It’s…