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A light unto the Nations

Trinity Church in the City of Boston Feast of the Presentation Feb 2, 2025 Almighty and ever living God, we humbly pray that, as your only-begotten Son was this day presented in the temple, so we may be presented to you with pure and clean hearts by Jesus Christ our Lord; who lives and reignsContinue reading “A light unto the Nations”

Magi, Making Lists and Following Hope

Trinity Church in the City of Boston II Christmas Year C Jan 5, 2025 The Collect O God, who wonderfully created, and yet more wonderfully restored, the dignity of human nature: Grant that we may share the divine life of him who humbled himself to share our humanity, your Son Jesus Christ; who lives and reignsContinue reading “Magi, Making Lists and Following Hope”

Sweet Baby Jesus, Lying in a Manger- Advent 1: Vulnerability: Love Laid Bare

Trinity Church in the City of Boston Advent 1 Year C December 1, 2024 Almighty God, give us grace to cast away the works of darkness, and put on the armor of light, now in the time of this mortal life in which your Son Jesus Christ came to visit us in great humility; thatContinue reading “Sweet Baby Jesus, Lying in a Manger- Advent 1: Vulnerability: Love Laid Bare”

Red Light, Green Light- The Need for seeing the possible in the impossible.

Trinity Church in the City of BostonNovember 3, 2024 All Saints’ Sunday Year B Isaiah 25:6-9Psalm 24John 11:32-44 Almighty God, you have knit together your elect in one communion and fellowship in the mystical body of your Son Christ our Lord: Give us grace so to follow your blessed saints in all virtuous and godlyContinue reading “Red Light, Green Light- The Need for seeing the possible in the impossible.”

Hurricanes, Rivers, and Crumbs…that all might be fed, healed, and loved.

Trinity Church in the City of Boston Proper 18, Year A, September 8, 2024 Proverbs 22:1-2, 8-9, 22-23Psalm 125 Mark 7:24-37 Grant us, O Lord, to trust in you with all our hearts; for, as you always resist the proud who confide in their own strength, so you never forsake those who make their boast ofContinue reading “Hurricanes, Rivers, and Crumbs…that all might be fed, healed, and loved.”

Choir Camp, Croissants, and Finales of Bread Week

Trinity Church in the City of BostonProper 25 Year B August 18, 2024 1 Kings 2:10-12; 3:3-14Psalm 111John 6:51-58 Almighty God, you have given your only Son to be for us a sacrifice for sin, and also an example of godly life: Give us grace to receive thankfully the fruits of his redeeming work, andContinue reading “Choir Camp, Croissants, and Finales of Bread Week”

Come Away and Rest with me, an invitation to be known.

Trinity Church in the City of BostonProper 11 Year BJuly 21, 2024 2 Samuel 7:1-14aPsalm 89:20-37Mark 6:30-34, 53-56 Almighty God, the fountain of all wisdom, you know our necessities before we ask and our ignorance in asking: Have compassion on our weakness, and mercifully give us those things which for our unworthiness we dare not,Continue reading “Come Away and Rest with me, an invitation to be known.”

Walls, Oxen, and Jesus.

Trinity Church in the City of BostonProper 5 Year B June 9, 2024 1 Samuel 8:4-11, (12-15), 16-20, (11:14-15)Psalm 138Mark 3:20-35 O God, from whom all good proceeds: Grant that by your inspiration we may think those things that are right, and by your merciful guiding may do them; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who livesContinue reading “Walls, Oxen, and Jesus.”

Kudzu, Gethsemane, and Lancelot Capability Brown- Being grafted and pruned in the Vineyard of God.

Trinity Church in the City of Boston April 28, 2024 5th Sunday in Easter year B Almighty God, whom truly to know is everlasting life: Grant us so perfectly to know your Son Jesus Christ to be the way, the truth, and the life, that we may steadfastly follow his steps in the way thatContinue reading “Kudzu, Gethsemane, and Lancelot Capability Brown- Being grafted and pruned in the Vineyard of God.”

The Original Spice Girls and God in the midst of our messy lives

Trinity in the City of Boston Easter Vigil Year B March 30, 2024 Exodus 14:10-31; 15:20-21 [Israel’s deliverance at the Red Sea] Zephaniah 3:14-20 [The gathering of God’s people] Romans 6:3-11Psalm 114Mark 16:1-8 O God, who made this most holy night to shine with the glory of the Lord’s resurrection: Stir up in your Church thatContinue reading “The Original Spice Girls and God in the midst of our messy lives”