Sermon First Sunday after Christmas December 28, 2014 William Bradbury     Special Readings John 1:1-18    We know the story from Luke we read Christmas Eve and Christmas Day: The story about Caesar and shepherds and angels and a man and a woman and a baby in a manger...

Sermon Christmas Eve 2014 William Bradbury     Isaiah 9:2-7  Titus 2:11-14  Luke 2:1-14(15-20)  Psalm 96   Do you like your Christmas tree this year? I like mine, but it’s certainly not because I enjoy the process of buying the thing and struggling to get it set up straight—“oh no,...

I am writing to alert you that now is the time to sign-up for the “Connect?” Course, which is a small group discussion on what it means to belong to a Eucharistic community that I will lead. It is for both newcomers and regulars. This course begins Sunday January 4th, going...

Audio is not available for this sermon. Sermon Advent Three—Year B December 14, 2014 William Bradbury   Isaiah 61:1-4, 8-11 Psalm 126 or Canticle 3 or Canticle 15 1 Thessalonians 5:16-24 John 1:6-8, 19-28 C. S. Lewis was in a dark toolshed and noticed a beam of sunlight coming in through a...

Sermon Advent Two December 7, 2014 William Bradbury     Isaiah 40:1-11 Psalm 85:1-2, 8-13 2 Peter 3:8-15a Mark 1:1-8 The beginning of the good news of Jesus Christ…. Whenever Caesar’s army won a battle runners went to the cities of the empire to announce the victory. These announcements were...

Sermon Advent One November 30, 2014 William Bradbury   Isaiah 64:1-9 Psalm 80:1-7, 16-18 I Corinthians 1:3-9 Mark 12:24-37 I’m impressed every year when Clem and Sally and assorted helpers manage to move our ginormous Advent wreath from storage in the chapel and hoist it high above the lecturn. As...

Sermon Last Pentecost—Year-A November 23, 2014 William Bradbury Ezekiel 34:11-16, 20-24 Psalm 100 Ephesians 1:15-23 Matthew 25:31-46 I love the images of the shepherd in the gospels: Jesus is the shepherd who leaves the 99 alone on a hillside to bring back the one lost sheep; he is the good...

There is no audio version for this sermon. Sermon 23 Pentecost—Proper 28-A November 16, 2014 William Bradbury   Judges 4:1-7 Psalm 123 1 Thessalonians 5:1-11 Matthew 25:14-30 As you know I’m a movie guy so I hate to come into a movie late—even a little bit–and what I refuse to...

Dear Friends in Christ, Last Saturday the Church gathered to pray good-bye to Tom Shaw, bishop, monk, and friend. The young Sri Lankan man sitting next to me on a back pew of the glorious Trinity Church, Copley Square, had flown in from Washington, D.C. He too had been touched...

Sermon All Saints’ Sunday November 2, 2014 William Bradbury   Revelation 7:9-17 Psalm 34:1-10, 22 1 John 3:1-3 Matthew 5:1-12 I always experience a cognitive dissonance on All Saints’ Day. On one hand, we are told in the passage from Revelation that the saints of God are those who “who...