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The Missing Wedding Robe

The Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost - Proper 23 - Year A (Track 2)
October 11th, 2020

In the parable of the Wedding Feast, Jesus offers us a supremely challenging parable. We must wrestle with what it means to take on the wedding robe we have been offered by God’s loving grace.

Duration: 11:53

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Francis and Neville

Saint Francis Celebration
October 4th, 2020

by The Rev. Br. Richard Edward Helmer

We hardly ever think of our beloved pets and the creatures of creation around us as theologians. Francis reminds us that they disclose to us in actions without words the grace and blessing of Christ at work among us.

Duration: 11:00

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When No Becomes Yes

The Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost - Proper 21 - Year A (Track 2)
September 27th, 2020

by SuEllen Pommier

Jesus offers us a parable that invites us to ask how we recognize true authority in our lives, and the risks we take on when we acknowledge Christ.

Duration: 12:08

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The Labor of Parables

The Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost - Proper 20 - Year A (Track 2)
September 20th, 2020

by The Rev. Gerald Caprio

With the story of the laborers in the vineyard, Jesus takes us deep into the profound spiritual world of parables, and offers us a way of reflecting on our struggles with God’s offensive generosity.

Duration: 8:11

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The Community of Forgiveness

The Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost - Proper 19 - Year A (Track 2)
September 13th, 2020

by The Rev. Br. Richard Edward Helmer

Jesus presents a stark teaching about the necessity of forgiveness as a baseline for the Christian journey with God, and an essential part of our being a community of God’s people.

Duration: 14:36

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The One Power

The Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost - Proper 18 - Year A (Track 2)
September 6th, 2020

by The Rev. Br. Richard Edward Helmer

In all the gospel, Jesus tells us that the People of God have been given a terrifying power: one that rings from the depths of the earth to the heights of heaven.

Duration: 13:13

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Finding True Religion

The Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost - Proper 17 - Year A (Track 2)
August 30th, 2020

by The Rev. Br. Richard Edward Helmer

Peter gets it right, but then he immediately gets it very wrong. Ours is not a Messiah who simply swoops down and rescues us. Instead, we get a Savior who comes among us, calling us to grow up in God’s grace: to take up our cross and follow him in the ways of world-altering love, radical peace, and self-offering faith.

Duration: 16:16

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Gospel at the World's Ending

The Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost - Proper 16 - Year A (Track 2)
August 23rd, 2020

by The Rev. Br. Richard Edward Helmer

Peter identifies Jesus as the Messiah just as it seems the whole world is burning around us. What does this tell us about who God in Christ is for us and what we are promised at this time?

Duration: 14:45

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