Advent begins… What comes to mind when you hear the word Advent? A season of longing, waiting, pregnant expectation, a time of hopefulness, a call to stillness, a time to step back in prayer and preparation as we approach the day when we will once again hear the great news that God so loved the world […]Read more “Advent Begins…”
Author: Colin Collette
Being the Bread of Life
In St. Paul’s letter to the Ephesians, Chapter 4, which we began reading last week and finish reading today, St, Paul is basically outlining what it means to be in community and to live as followers of the “Way” – a title given to the early followers of Christ before they were known as Christians. […]Read more “Being the Bread of Life”
Art, Opera, and John the Baptizer
Twice in my life I have found myself lost in a great work of art and therein almost anesthetized to the great act of violence the very work itself was portraying. This happened once while I was listening to a soprano sing an aria from the opera Salome. Her impeccably clear soprano voice carried me […]Read more “Art, Opera, and John the Baptizer”
Ascension Day Sermon (transferred) 2021
Who among us – mother, father, aunt, uncle, grandparent, or friend – has not spent time deeply engaged with a young child in a game of “peek-a-boo?” You know that game, where you are before a young child and you either hide behind your hands or their favorite blanket, and then pop out and say […]Read more “Ascension Day Sermon (transferred) 2021”
God In Us Made Manifest
John Shea, in his book Starlight: Beholding the Christmas Miracle All Year Long, tells a story about being at a Christmas party and realizing that it is impossible to return to the world as we know it after casually wandering up to the mantel and seeing the nativity scene. Knowing that the Word became flesh […]Read more “God In Us Made Manifest”
December 6, 2020
Dear Friends, Earlier this week, I read a post on Facebook that went something like this: “Does anyone else feel the urge to call the radio stations that are playing ‘songs of the season’ and ask, “Where are the Advent songs?’” My first impulse was to immediately hit “like” and launch my usual tirade about no […]Read more “December 6, 2020”
What Will It Take?
In the past few weeks I have found myself reflecting on two seemingly disparate statements intended, I think, to rally the troops as we once again ramp up the fight against this pandemic. The first of the two appeared last spring very early in our journey with COVID, simply “# in this together.” I remember, […]Read more “What Will It Take?”
Pass it, Share it, Give it Away
(Sermon recorded in the Parish Hall among thousands of paper bags used on Tuesday’s RCS pantry) Here, in this all too familiar space, best known to me as the place where I regularly meet the nine o’clock choir members to warm up and rehearse for service, the place where we catch up and connect during […]Read more “Pass it, Share it, Give it Away”
Presentation of Our Lord
For me as a liturgy nerd, it is so exciting that the feast of the Presentation of the Lord, this year, falls on a Sunday, and in the grand scheme of all things liturgical, supplants the observation of the 4th Sunday after the Epiphany. In days past this feast was the close of the Christmas […]Read more “Presentation of Our Lord”
The Gift is God with Us
Last Sunday after seven weeks of Advent and a few extremely busy few weeks, morning services complete and a lovely afternoon prayer service with our seniors at the Breakers, my mind and heart were now resolutely set on the turn to Bethlehem, this sermon, and finally the most dreaded part of my Christmas preparations…. the […]Read more “The Gift is God with Us”