Pentecost 8 / Afrique fête July 31, 2022 Hosea 11:1-11 Colossians 3:1-11 Luke 12:13-21 Our Afrique Fête is one of my favorite Sundays of the year. It’s not just the conviviality of the occasion, and our celebration of, and support for the members of our church with deep connections to Africa that moves me. This…
Pentecost 7 July 24, 2022 Hosea 1:2-10 Colossians 2:6-19 Luke 11:1-13 Can you remember the first time you prayed? I’m not talking about the first time you learned the Lord’s prayer, or opened a prayer book to read something. I’m not even talking about the first time you faced a crisis and said a brief…
Pentecost VI July 17, 2022 Amos 8 :1-12 Colossians 1 :15-28 Luke 10 :38 – 42 In her book The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood describes the dystopian Republic of Gilead, set in New England in the near-future. In Gilead, the men possess all the power, and women lose all their agency and their individuality. They are assigned just…
Église française du Saint Esprit Baptême d’Hortense 10 juillet 2022 Premiers pas Cette semaine Mademoiselle Hortense ici présente nous a donné une petite leçon de vie. Elle venait juste d’arriver avec ses parents, Justine et Vincent, dans cette grande ville de New York, dans le nouvel appartement que l’Eglise vient de récupérer dans l’immeuble…
Pentecost IV July 3, 2022 Isaiah 66:10-14 Galatians 6:1-18 Luke 10:1-20 On March 29th, 1998 a curious incident took place on the Island of Antigua in the West Indies. Fr. Gerard Critch, a Roman Catholic priest, developed the stigmata; a phenomenon in which the physical wounds suffered by Jesus at his crucifixion appear on the…