You will find here the Sunday sermons. Each sermon is posted in English and in French.
Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost August 29, 2021 Song of Solomon 2:8-13 James 1:17-27 Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23 Anyone who has lived through a bout of food poisoning will tell you that they still feel slightly nauseous when they remember the food that made them so ill. I once caught amoebic dysentery from some olives I…
Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost August 22, 2021 I Kings 8:22-30, 41-43 Ephesians 6:10-20 John 6:56-69 What sort of biographies do you enjoy reading? Biographies rich with historical detail, or biographies that reveal the inner lives of their subjects? The biograhies of Jesus in the New Testament give us both types. Generally speaking, while the three…
Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost August 15, 2021 I Kings 2:10-12, 3:3-14 Ephesians 5:15-20 John 6:51-58 During the pandemic, a surprising number of people have focused on two things that they might have neglected in the past. Firstly, the lockdowns, restrictions and closures of restaurants and cafés have led to people cooking for themselves, sometimes for…
Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost August 8, 2021 II Samuel 18:5-9, 15, 31-33 Ephesians 4:25-5:2 John 6:35, 41-51 When I was a child, my grandmother had a pressure cooker and I hated it. I wasn’t alone: her dog hated it too. It is a sort of saucepan with a very tight-fitting lid. It is so tight,…
Pentecost X August 1, 2021 II Samuel 11:26 -12:13 Ephesians 4:1-16 John 6:24-35 “Theocracy is the worst of all governments. If we must have a tyrant, a robber-baron is far better than an inquisitor. The baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity at some point be sated; and since he dimply knows he is doing…
Pentecost IX / Afrique-fête July 25, 2021 II Samuel 11:1-15 Ephesians 3:14-21 John 6:1-21 Though the time when Europeans and North Americans could be forgiven for knowing very little about Africa is now long past, there are still many who continue to believe that Africa is the name of one country, and not the name…
Pentecost VIII July 18, 2021 II Samuel 7:1-14 Ephesians 2:11-22 Mark 6:30-34, 53 – 56 When the first lock-down was imposed in New York City in March of last year, I decided that one of the ways in which we could respond to the situation would be to hold daily live-streamed morning and evening prayer…
Pentecost VII / Bastille July 11, 2021 II Samuel 6:1-19 Ephesians 1:3-14 Mark 6:14-29 The Bible – a bit like the French, (as you may recall on the occasion of their national holiday) has a rather complex relationship with the concept of royalty. At times, the virtues of kings or queens are celebrated, and at…
Pentecost VI July 4, 2021 2 Samuel 5:1-5, 9-10 2 Corinthians 12:2-10 Mark 6:1-13 Pledges and donations to the church have become more and more important over the last year or so. Because of the pandemic, we haven’t been able to ‘pass the plate’. We rely on the generous donations that many of you have…
Pentecost V June 27, 2021 II Samuel 1:1, 17-27 II Corinthians 8:7-15 Mark 5:21-43 Do we always get what we deserve? I suspect that most of us would answer this little question with a resounding “NO!” We would love to live in a world where the equation would go something like this: “If I do…