Trinity Church in the City of Boston Third Sunday in Lent Year B, 2024 Exodus 20:1-17John 2:13-22 Almighty God, you know that we have no power in ourselves to help ourselves: Keep us both outwardly in our bodies and inwardly in our souls, that we may be defended from all adversities which may happen toContinue reading “Stop Signs, Lent, Laws of Love”
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Angels, Shepherds, Mangers, O MY!
Christmas Day Homily Year C 2021 God of fear, God of the night, God of the Expectation, You visited the angels in the night with songs and sights of joy. In all of our nights, turn us towards hope, because hope might just keep us alive. Amen[i] MERRY CHRISTMAS!!! We have lived through the nightContinue reading “Angels, Shepherds, Mangers, O MY!”
Christmas Cards, Choristers, and Butt Dust
Trinity Church in the City of BostonAsh Wednesday February 14, 2024 Almighty and everlasting God, you hate nothing you have made and forgive the sins of all who are penitent: Create and make in us new and contrite hearts, that we, worthily lamenting our sins and acknowledging our wretchedness, may obtain of you, the GodContinue reading “Christmas Cards, Choristers, and Butt Dust”
Finding Home right where you are.
Trinity Church in the City of Boston Year B Fourth Sunday after Epiphany January 28, 2024 Almighty and everlasting God, you govern all things both in heaven and on earth: Mercifully hear the supplications of your people, and in our time grant us your peace; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns withContinue reading “Finding Home right where you are.”
Shepherds, Midwives, and the Word made Flesh
Trinity Church in the City of BostonChristmas Day, 2023 Christmas Day I Isaiah 9:2-7 Titus 2:11-14 Luke 2: 15-20 O God, you make us glad by the yearly festival of the birth of your only Son Jesus Christ: Grant that we, who joyfully receive him as our Redeemer, may with sure confidence behold him when he comesContinue reading “Shepherds, Midwives, and the Word made Flesh”
A King who sees right through us and loves us into living more lovingly. Christ the King Sunday
Trinity Church in the City of Boston Christ the King Sunday November 26, 2023 Psalm 100Ephesians 6:10-24Matthew 25:31-46 Almighty and everlasting God, whose will it is to restore all things in your well-beloved Son, the King of kings and Lord of lords: Mercifully grant that the peoples of the earth, divided and enslaved by sin,Continue reading “A King who sees right through us and loves us into living more lovingly. Christ the King Sunday”
Confrontation and Curiousity
Trinity Church in the City of Boston Proper 24 (Adapted) Year A 2023 October 22, 2023 Ephesians 3:14-21 Psalm 99 Matthew 22:15-22 Almighty and everlasting God, in Christ you have revealed your glory among the nations: Preserve the works of your mercy, that your Church throughout the world may persevere with steadfast faith in theContinue reading “Confrontation and Curiousity”
St. Francis, St. Paul, Snow White and Our Call to Creation Care
Trinity Church in the City of Boston Proper 19 Year A September 17, 2023 Ephesians 1:1-14 Psalm 114 Matthew 18:21-35 Collect for Proper 19 O God, because without you we are not able to please you, mercifully grant that your Holy Spirit may in all things direct and rule our hearts; through Jesus Christ our Lord,Continue reading “St. Francis, St. Paul, Snow White and Our Call to Creation Care”
Hold Steady!
Trinity Church in the City of Boston Proper 12 Year A 2023 Genesis 29:15-28Psalm 105:1-11, 45b Matthew 13:31-33,44-52 O God, the protector of all who trust in you, without whom nothing is strong, nothing is holy: Increase and multiply upon us your mercy; that, with you as our ruler and guide, we may so pass through thingsContinue reading “Hold Steady!”
What Happens in the Nighttime can be surprising!
Trinity Church in the City of Boston Proper 11 Year A 2023 Genesis 28:10-19aPsalm 139: 1-11, 22-23Matthew 13:24-30,36-43 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 “What Happens in the Nighttime can be surprising!”
"I will with God's Help" 