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Honoring Women on Fathers’ Day – Sermon for the 4th Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 6C) – June 16, 2013
Fr. Funston's sermon for June 16, 2013, Pentecost 4 (Proper 6C), "Honoring Women on Fathers’ Day" is now available online: These are the three pictures of women in today’s scriptures: a woman of wealth and power who used who wealth and power to corrupt and manipulate; a woman of absolutely no status whatsoever who felt empowered to give probably everything she had in gratitude for the forgiveness brought to her by Jesus; and women of independent means who made their own decisions to work for the betterment of the world, who (in this particular instance) supported Jesus in his ministry of ...
Offal Theology Beats Awful Theology – Sermon for the 3rd Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 5C) – June 9, 2013
Fr. Funston sermon for Sunday, June 9, 2013, is now available at his blog: I am often called upon to engage in conversation with atheists who want to tell me why they don’t believe in God. I don’t go looking for these conversations, but wearing a clerical collar in an airport or a restaurant or wherever they just seem to happen. And when they tell me why they don’t believe in God, in addition to all the allegedly scientific reasons about there being no credible experimentally verifiable evidence, there is always some variation on, “I can’t believe in a god that ...
Ten Authentic Years – Sermon for Pentecost 2 (Proper 4C) – June 2, 2013
Fr. Funston's sermon for Sunday, June 2, 2013, the Second Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 4C), his 10th anniversary as Rector of this parish, is now available online: More important than the building and the grounds are the ministries through which we have touched peoples’ lives. In these ten years, there have been more than 1,500 celebrations of the Holy Eucharist in this sanctuary! That means just here, in this space, there have been more than 250,000 administrations of Holy Communion; more than a quarter of a million times communicants have received the Blessed Sacrament, this sacrament which (as one of our ...
Mystery and Community: Trinity Sunday and Memorial Day – Sermon for May 26, 2013
Fr. Funston's sermon for May 26, 2013, exploring the common themes of Trinity Sunday and Memorial Day is now online: Memorial Day, like Trinity Sunday, is a day whose theme is community, the nation as community, the military services as community, the family as community. Bishop Ware’s description of Trinitarian community as embracing “diversity and unity, human freedom and mutual solidarity” could as easily have been used by the president to describe the community which celebrates Memorial Day; President Obama’s words of courage and devotion, sacrifice and trust, justice and eternal peace could as easily have been used to describe the ...
Daily Prayer
June 19 – Conservation of Natural ResourcesAlmighty God, in giving us dominion over things on earth, you made us fellow workers...
June 18 – Bernard Mizeki
Almighty and everlasting God, who kindled the flame of your love in the heart of...
June 17, 2013 – George Berkeley & Joseph Butler
Holy God, source of all wisdom: We give thanks for your servants George Berkeley...
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News & Updates
March 10 – Daylight Saving Time StartsDaylight Saving Time starts on Sunday, March 10. Be sure to set your clocks ahead...
February 17, 2013 – Lenten Soup & Study
Our Lenten Soup and Study program, A Call to Live, begins Sunday, February 17, 2013,...
January 27, 2013 – Annual Parish Meeting
The annual meeting of the membership of St. Paul’s Parish, at which vestry...
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Upcoming Liturgical Events
Easter Sunday Sunrise – March 31, 2013The Great Vigil of Easter (celebrated as a sunrise service) will begin at 6:30 a.m. on Resurrection Sunday, March 31, 2013. The Rev. M. Kathryn Rackley, guest clergy, will preach. Read More →
Easter Sunday – March 31, 2013
The Festival Eucharist of the Resurrection will begin at 10 a.m. on Resurrection Day, March 31, 2013. The Rev. Dr. C. Eric Funston, rector, will preach. Read More →
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Daily Office Meditations
Our rector keeps a blog entitled That Which We Have Heard & Known where he offers meditations inspired by the Daily Office Lectionary.
Click to read Fr. Funstons meditations.
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