Sunday, March 17, 2024

For St. Patrick's Day

A musical blessing for St. Patrick's Day -- Steve Bell singing "The Lorica" -- a version of St. Patrick's Breastplate prayer. May it bless your day. 😊





Thursday, March 14, 2024

Holy Week and Easter Services at St. Cyprian's

 

Palm Sunday - March 24, 2024

Holy Eucharist - 10 a.m.




Good Friday - March 29, 2024

Good Friday Service - 10 a.m.




Easter Sunday - March 31, 2024

Holy Eucharist - 2 p.m.

Please note this special time.

There will be no 10 a.m. service that morning.












A Sermon for Lent IV: The Freedom of Responsibility

Rev. Robert Sears has recorded his sermon from Sunday, March 10th -- the 4th Sunday in Lent. May it bless your day. 😊



He writes this about his reflections:
"Lent 4 gives us both readings: Numbers 21:4-9and John 3:13-21.
"Jesus refers to the bronze serpent in a metaphor of himself. But how was it used in the Book of Numbers?

"In Numbers the bronze serpent is a part of an object lesson for the Israelites. They were free from Pharaoh, but they were not ready for the freedom to be responsible for their own lives together. They were afraid of the open road before them. They would rather complain about God and Moses: they had neither food nor water, and they didn't like the food and water Moses gave them. They were their own worst enemies. They even longed for the false security of their former bondage. They were sorely tempted by the complete abandonment of responsibility for their own lives. The lesson behind the bronze serpent is to stop complaining and wanting to outsource the responsibility for your own life. See the value of life. Look to God's gifts and provision. Walk before God in the freedom to live a life of responsibility."

Friday, March 8, 2024

A Sermon for Lent III: "The Birth of a Nation"

 Rev. Robert has recorded his sermon from Sunday, March 3 -- may it bless your day. 😊


Related reading: Exodus 20: 1-17.

Additional readings for Sunday, March 3:
Psalm 19;
1 Corinthians 1:18-25;
The Gospel of John 2:13-22.

Wednesday, March 6, 2024

Yep...Here We Go Again!

Just a reminder: no matter how much snow is on the ground or in the forecast, it's time...Before you go to bed Saturday night...




Monday, February 26, 2024

A Sermon for Lent II: "Walk Before Me and Be Blameless"

 

God instructing Abraham to count the stars
Woodcut by Julius Schnorr Von Carolsfeld, 1860
Source: Wikipedia Commons

Rev Robert's Sermon for Lent 2 (Year A) - Feb 25,, 2024. He writes:

In this sermon I pick up from where Noah left off. God is trying to change the way we function. He would like to replace freedom as autonomy with freedom as responsibility. And where Noah, though righteous failed, Abraham succeeds. Abraham exemplifies the inner-directed life of faith and shows us what a leader after God's own heart looks like.

Related readings: Genesis 17:1-7, 15-16 and Romans 4:13-25