Huguenot Sunday April 24, 2022 Acts 5 :27-32 Revelation 1 :4-8 John 20 :19-31 If we take Easter Day 1628 as the first communion service celebrated by the French Protestant community in New Amsterdam, we just celebrated our 394th Easter in this City. St. Esprit is only four years away from commemorating four centuries of Christian worship.…
Easter Day I want you to imagine for a moment the place where you think a new religion should be born. Think about what this means. The world’s religions claim to give people meaning in their life. They claim to show us how to thrive when passing through the best and the worst that the…
Palm Sunday April 10, 2022 Luke 19:28-40 Palm Sunday is one of those Sundays in the Church’s year that captures the imagination of most church-goers. Even people who don’t usually attend church appreciate the gift of a blessed palm, and we certainly have plenty of them to give away this year! Even though the liturgy…
Lent V April 3rd, 2022 Today’s Gospel reading from John contains a familiar story from Jesus’ life just before his arrival in Jerusalem and his betrayal, persecution, crucifixion, and resurrection. The basic motif – Jesus as a guest in a home, a woman who comes to anoint him – is found in all four synoptic…