Archive for 2011
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Sermon preached by the Rev’d Nicholas Lang St. Paul’s on the Green, Norwalk, CT All Saints’ Sunday – November 6, 2011 In the name of God: Creator, Redeemer, Sustainer, who rejoices in all the saints. Amen. A man was reflecting on his college years with his children. “One day,” he told them, “our professor gave […]
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Sermon preached by the Rev’d Nicholas Lang St. Paul’s on the Green, Norwalk, CT The Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost – October 30, 2011 The story is told of a preacher who was having a conversation with his wife after a morning when he delivered what he thought was a magnificent and masterful sermon, “Tell me, […]
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Sermon preached by Kit Sharp, Seminarian Intern St. Paul’s on the Green, Norwalk, CT The Ninteenth Sunday after Pentecost – October 23, 2011 A little over four years ago, I was standing in a friend’s kitchen with a man who had come most unexpectedly into my life two months before. Normally this person was calm […]
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Sermon preached by the Reverend Nicholas Lang St. Paul’s on the Green, Norwalk, CT The Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost – October 16, 2011 In the name of God: Creator, Redeemer, Sustainer. Amen. An elderly man is stopped by the police around 1 a.m. and is asked where he is going at this time of night. […]
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Sermon preached by the Reverend Nicholas Lang St. Paul’s on the Green, Norwalk, CT The Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost – October 9, 2011 Methodist Bishop William Willimon tells the story of a recurring dream that he has. He is standing in the pulpit on a Sunday morning and well into the thick of the sermon, […]
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Sermon preached by the Reverend Cindy Stravers St. Paul’s on the Green, Norwalk, CT The Feast of St. Michael & All Angels (transferred) – October 2, 2011 After a week of reading about angels – from philosophers like Plato to Thomas Aquinas, after a week of looking at art books filled with images of angels […]
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Homily preached by the Reverend Cindy Stravers St. Paul’s on the Green, Norwalk, CT The Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost – September 25, 2011 I was asked to do a little reflection for our vestry meeting last week – something based on the 3 “G’s” that we have chosen as our foci for this year’s pledge […]
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Sermon preached by the Reverend Louise Kalemkerian St. Paul’s on the Green, Norwalk, CT The Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost – September 25, 2011 In the name of our all-loving God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. AMEN. For those of you who don’t know me, I’m the phantom name in the list of associate clergy on […]
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Sermon preached by the Reverend Adam Yates St. Paul’s on the Green, Norwalk, CT The Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost – September 18, 2011 When I was in seminary, life wasn’t easy. In addition to being a full time student and serving as a parish intern, I held down one and sometimes two jobs. My typical […]
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Homily preached by the Reverend Nicholas Lang St. Paul’s on the Green, Norwalk, CT On the 10th Anniversary of 9/11/2001 – September 11, 2011 Remembrance is a sacred moment when we raise up and hold to the light of the eternal moment, what has passed; what we have lost. Remembrance begins with deep, personal identification. […]
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