The Collect, Epistle, and Gospel followed by the sermon for the Fourth Sunday in Lent. Click the link below.
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Sunday, March 27, 2022
Friday, March 25, 2022
THE ANNUNCIATION 2022
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Sunday, March 20, 2022
GATHERING WITH CHRIST 3rd SUNDAY IN LENT 2022
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Saturday, March 19, 2022
Synago
I am reposting this essay from 2017. The last two years, that the locust hath eaten, have been exceptional in a bad way. There was, before the rolling out of vaccines, reason why many of our people in our churches remained at home on Sundays, perhaps viewing services remotely as their safest option. But that time has mostly passed. Most of us are fully vaccinated, and there is also a cure for those who become infected. It is time to urge everyone to be in the habit of regular attendance. The exceptional time was just that: Exceptional. It must not be “the new normal.” So you may read this, and decide if it useful to pass on, by clicking this link.
Sunday, March 13, 2022
SECOND SUNDAY IN LENT 2022
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Sunday, March 06, 2022
FIRST SUNDAY IN LENT 2022
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Wednesday, March 02, 2022
ASH WEDNESDAY 2022
This video is the sermon I preached at the 12:00 noon Ash Wednesday service (another follows at 7;00 pm). Click the link below to open it.
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Sunday, February 27, 2022
QUINQUAGESIMA 2022 and announcements from Saint benedict's ACC
A reminder that this coming week we will have the Shrove Tuesday Pancake supper at 5:00 to sometime after 7:00 pm (or maybe a bit longer). On Ash Wednesday we will have the services at 12:00 noon and at & 7:00 pm. For the sermon today (after the Collect, Epistle, and Gospel) preached by Nicholas Harrelson OSB, Postulant to Holy Orders, click the link below. Mr. Harrelson has the permission of Archbishop Haverland to preach during his postulancy with the requirement that I read them ahead of time (a temporary requirement of course as he has yet to take our own Ordination Exams).
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Sunday, February 20, 2022
Sunday, February 13, 2022
SEPTUAGESIMA 2022
Here is the link for today's Collect, Epistle, Gospel, and Sermon
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Finally, here is the link for those who want to join us tomorrow for Monday's Evening Prayer via Zoom.
God bless you
Here is the link to our Paypal account if you want to donate to the church.
Finally, here is the link for those who want to join us tomorrow for Monday's Evening Prayer via Zoom.
God bless you
Sunday, February 06, 2022
FIFTH SUNDAY AFTER THE EPIPHANY
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Sunday, January 30, 2022
FOURTH SUNDAY AFTER THE EPISTLE
Today Mr. Nicholas Harrelson OSB, one of our Archbishop's postulants to Holy Orders, preached the sermon. His ordination is scheduled (God willing) for July of this year. Archbishop Haverland has given me permission to allow him to preach. I am glad because Nicholas does a fine job of it, and the experience can only be helpful. If you want to take part in our Monday Evening Prayer at 6:00 pm he hosts it, and the easiest way is to click this link on Monday at 6:00.
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Tuesday, January 25, 2022
Sunday, January 23, 2022
Third Sunday after the Epiphany 2022
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Saturday, January 22, 2022
ABSOLUTE LINE IN THE SAND reposted
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I am very annoyed when I hear young progressives use the euphemism, "Women's reproductive health." Abortion is about killing, and is therefore the opposite of health. There is nothing healthy in killing. A living human being who is developing naturally is healthy, and so killing that person is the antithesis of health. Destroying the developing life is certainly the opposite of "reproductive." And to say "women's" is to assert that a pregnant women has, for nine months, two heads, two hearts, four arms, four legs, two distinct DNA patterns, two distinct sets of fingerprints, and two distinct identities. Yes, I get it that it just isn't fair that women get pregnant and men don't; but pregnancy is always of very limited duration: Unlike death, it is not a permanent condition.
The scientific fact is that the two sexes predate the evolution of the species Homo sapiens. Even atheists must admit that human beings did not create this situation that is simply nature beyond our control. We might enforce fairness then, but only by enacting injustice, the injustice of killing innocent human beings. Fairness, at the expenses of justice is evil.
I say these things because I respect the claim of progressives to the moral high ground when it comes to addressing the reality of racial injustice, and the injustice of continuing economic policies that are, in effect, kleptocracy by the One Percent. I believe that the United States is, by choice, a backward third world country in its harsh and unenlightened treatment of the poor. We need to catch up with all the other democratic and developed countries when it comes to many issues, especially healthcare, campaign funding, economic justice, and police reform.
But, when progressives use the euphemism "women's reproductive health" they forfeit the moral high ground. They opt for the selfish indulgence of the "sexual revolution," to do what feels good, at the expense of accepting the reality that human behavior is capable of responsibility. I understand why the younger generation has turned away from its shift to a more pro-life position than that of the "Baby Boomers." It is heart breaking, because it has a been a total lie all along. But, I ask progressives everywhere, especially the young, to consider this basic argument. The child in the womb is an individual human being; if you argue that that child has no right to life, then you are also arguing for a definition of Personhood.
Now, you may ask, "What is wrong with a definition of personhood?" The answer is simple: Such a definition is never about the objective truth, but about exclusion. Who may we exclude as non-persons? History provides this perspective: Defining personhood has already excluded all people of color, to justify slavery; it has excluded Jews in Europe, to justify the Nazi Holocaust. It excluded the Native Americans to justify the evil of imperial "Manifest Destiny" with its genocide. If the child in the womb is to be treated as a non-person, based on the lie that this separate and equal individual is merely part of her mother's body (which, clearly defies scientific reality), than the argument for the absurd and unjust euphemism "women's reproductive health" is the same argument for slavery, the Holocaust, and the Native American Genocide, etc.
So, there is the forfeit of any claim to a moral high ground.
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