Audio, Pentecost
Louise Fortuna
A Sermon for St. Mary's

As Aimee concludes her year of deacon training with us, she leaves us with a love letter.

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A Sermon for St. Mary's
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Creator, Grace-Giver, Holy Spirit

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Today’s readings offer us several views of the Holy Trinity. That sometimes confusing, always mysterious, human attempt at defining the nature of the Creator of all that is! In the beginning, the great wind of God, in Hebrew, Ruah, moved over the waters and created life. God the Creator, the life-force hovering over the void, bringing everything into being. The animating, creating Spirit of God. All living things called into being through God’s word. And it was so. God saw everything that God had created and indeed it was very good.

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The Feast of Pentecost

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On this Feast of Pentecost, fifty days after Easter, we commemorate, we remember, we celebrate the moment when the Disciples were gathered together, and the Holy Spirit came down upon them like a rushing wind and tongues of flame. It empowered them to preach the Good News, and 3000 people were baptized that day. I cannot imagine that number. I am super excited because we have one baptism today. Can you imagine 3000? That would be a long service.

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A Sermon for the End of the School Year

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A Sermon for the End of the School Year
Aimee Fritsch
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An Account of the Hope that is Within You

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“Always be ready to give an account of the hope that is within you.” In my first year of Seminary on the first day of my first preaching class, the professor gave us an assignment to prepare a 5-minute speech, memorized, on the hope that is within you. And for that assignment, I told the story of Jonah.

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Nurture Your Faith with Hope and Love

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Nurture Your Faith with Hope and Love
The Rev. Bingham Pwell
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Listen for the Heart of Christ Beating in the Creation

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Listen for the Heart of Christ Beating in the Creation
The Rev. Bingham Pwell
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Seeing with the Heart

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I’m acutely aware that what we see is only partly informed by the light waves that strike our eyes which in turn send signals to our brains that register as blue sky, green grass or whatever.  The reality is we only see a fraction of what passes before us largely because we tend to see what we expect to see while failing to notice everything else. 

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