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sermon-2012-08-26

Sermon preached by Anne M. Watkins St. Paul’s on the Green, Norwalk, CT The Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost – August 26, 2012 Choose this day whom you will serve. In the name of God: Creator, Redeemer, and Sustainer. Amen. I want to commend you for your choice to be here this morning. After all, summer […]

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  August 26, 2012   No comments

Homily-2012-08-19

Homily preached by Frank Tuchols, Pastoral Associate St. Paul’s on the Green, Norwalk, CT The Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost – The Feast of St. Mary the Virgin (transferred) – August 19, 2012 As we celebrate this ancient feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary I would like to focus our attention on the relationship that Mary […]

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  August 24, 2012   No comments

sermon-2012-08-19

Sermon preached by the Reverend Nicholas Lang St. Paul’s on the Green, Norwalk, CT The Feast of St. Mary the Virgin (transferred) – August 19, 2012 The rector was invited to attend a house party. Naturally, she was properly dressed and wore her priest clerical collar. A little boy kept staring at her the entire […]

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  August 21, 2012   No comments

sermon-2012-08-12

Sermon preached by the Reverend Cindy Stravers St. Paul’s on the Green, Norwalk, CT The Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost – August 12, 2012 When I was a child, before Sunday evening service (yes, we went to church twice every Sunday!), we would have a light supper. Often it was sandwiches and a cup of tea. […]

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  August 13, 2012   No comments

homily-2012-08-05

Homily preached by the Reverend Cindy Stravers St. Paul’s on the Green, Norwalk, CT The Tenth Sunday after Pentecost – August 5, 2012 There was a lot of scuttlebutt around here last Sunday and it continued on through the week. I did not hear one happy word about the lesson we read regarding the behavior […]

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  August 7, 2012   No comments

sermon-2012-08-05

Sermon preached by the Reverend Nicholas Lang St. Paul’s on the Green, Norwalk, CT The Tenth Sunday after Pentecost – August 5, 2012 In the name of God: Creator, Redeemer, Reconciler. Amen. For the past several weeks, the first reading on Sunday is from the Old Testament Book of Samuel, offering a theological history of […]

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  August 6, 2012   No comments

sermon-2012-07-29

Sermon preached by the Reverend Adam Yates St. Paul’s on the Green, Norwalk, CT The Ninth Sunday after Pentecost – July 29, 2012 There is a church that I know, located in a small and economically depressed Midwestern town, with a tiny worshiping community. The few parishioners that were there were unable to support the […]

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  August 1, 2012   No comments

sermon-2012-07-22

Sermon preached by the Reverend Nicholas Lang St. Paul’s on the Green, Norwalk, CT The Eighth Sunday after Pentecost – July 22, 2012 I detest bullying and those who engage in that damaging, discriminatory behavior. Over the past few years we have seen the devastating impact of bullying in the number of suicides occurring as […]

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  July 23, 2012   No comments

sermon-2012-07-15

Sermon preached by Frank Tuchols, Pastoral Associate St. Paul’s on the Green, Norwalk, CT The Seventh Sunday after Pentecost – July 15, 2012 I made sure to wear my sandals today! In today’s gospel Jesus is expressing a sense of urgency as well as wanting his disciples to travel lightly. Matthew’s account of these directions […]

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  July 17, 2012   No comments

sermon-2012-07-08

Sermon preached by the Reverend Nicholas Lang St. Paul’s on the Green, Norwalk, CT The Sixth Sunday after Pentecost – July 8, 2012 In the movie Last Holiday, Queen Latifah plays the role of Georgia Byrd, a sales clerk at a New Orleans department store who leads a very quiet, lonely life. She cooks gourmet […]

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  July 9, 2012   No comments