This category includes all of our sermons. Every Sermon is posted in English, followed by its French translation.
The Holy Name of Jesus January 1, 2023 Numbers 6:22-27 Galatians 4:4-7 Luke 2:15-21 According to Jewish law and tradition, a male child had to be taken to the temple eight days after it was born. There, the child was named and circumcised, and thus became a full member of the family of God’s Chosen…
Christmas Eve 2022 Given the fact that Christmas is all about the birth of a child, it isn’t surprising that many of the most famous Christmas hymns are lullabies. Perhaps the most famous of them all is ‘Silent night’, translated into many languages and was first sung in English here in New York City at…
ADVENT IV December 18, 2022 Isaiah 7:10-16 Romans 1:1-7 Matthew 1:18-25 I feel a bit sorry for Joseph. He’s the one character in the nativity story to whom one gives only passing attention. Even the star and the donkey feature more prominently in popular imagination than he does. Is it because Joseph is something of…
Advent II December 4, 2022 Isaiah 11:1-10 Psalm 72:1-7. 18-19 Romans 14:4-13 Matthew 3:1-12 When I told my mother a little over 3 years ago that I was going to enroll in a master’s degree in theology, she asked me why, a little surprised, and then she told me that I was probably going to…
Advent I November 27, 2022 Isaiah 2 :1-5 Romans 13 :11-14 Matthew 24 :36-44 My paternal grandmother was quite a colorful character. She was a faithful churchgoer, and certainly played an important part in my own faith formation through her kindness and through the way she brought Bible stories to life. But it was never a good…
Christ the King / Baptism of Brooks November 20, 2022 Jeremiah 23:1-6 Colossians 1:11-20 Luke 23:33-43 Today is quite the celebration! We’re here to welcome Brooks’s family and to baptize him in the name of Christ’s love and his victory on the cross; we are here to celebrate the last Sunday before Advent –…
Pentecost XXIII November 13, 2022 Isaiah 65:17-25 2 Thessalonians 3:6-13 Luke 21:5-19 For you have no sympathy for me, You, your shepherds and your dogs. I have been told of this. I have to make things even. Saying this, into the woods The wolf carries the lamb, and then eats him Without any other…
All Saints Sunday November 6, 2022 Daniel 7:1-3,15-18 Ephesians 1:11-23 Luke 6:20-31 It may come as a surprise to some of you to know that St. Esprit has a cemetery. You will be relieved to know that it is not in the back garden under the children’s climbing frame. Our cemetery is located in…
Pentecost XXI October 30, 2022 Habakkuk 1:1-2:4 II Thessalonians 1:1-12 Luke 19:1-10 Our story about Jesus, Zacchaeus and the fig tree is set in Jericho. It’s the same town where the Canaanite walls fell down at the sound of the invading Hebrews’ trumpets. It is one of the oldest cities in the world. It…
Pentecost XX October 23rd, 2022 Joel 2:23-32 2 Timothy 4:6-8, 16-18 Luke 18:9-14 Did you know that self-help books published in the United States of America account for one billion dollars per year? I’m sure that the Bible isn’t counted as one of those books, but perhaps it should be! They are more likely to…