This post will be updated as plans develop! Despite the lockdown, we’re keeping busy, praying, planning, and reaching out at the holidays! Lessons & Carols will take place on Zoom at 4 PM on Sunday, December 13, and there will be a virtual Christmas pageant produced as a video that will be available for viewing shortly before Christmas. People of… View Post
Blessed are those who mourn
All Saints’, Dorval All Saints’, Year A November 1, 2020 “Blessed are they that mourn” by Jennifer Buerkle Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. There is so much grief in the world today. Grief for loved ones lost to COVID-19. Grief for the senseless waste of life and human potential caused by racism and other forms… View Post
Emperors and idols
All Saints’, Dorval Proper 24, Year A October 18, 2020 A denarius of the Emperor Tiberius Caesar “Give therefore to the emperor the things that are the emperor’s, and to God the things that are God’s.” Or, in the old translation that became an aphorism independent of its context, “Render unto Caesar …” Jesus, in his ongoing war of words… View Post
Looking ahead to the rest of 2020
Thanks to Margaret Beattie for hanging the Thanksgiving banner (just barely visible at left – I turned on all the lights but it was still dark in the church!) The COVID-19 pandemic continues to make it very difficult to plan ahead, and (as I hinted in my sermon on Sunday) requires us to be flexible and ready to change our… View Post
Gratitude and changes of plan
All Saints’, Dorval Harvest Thanksgiving, Year A October 11, 2020 Megan, Jen, and me at St. Paul’s United Methodist Church, St. Albans, Vermont, April 8, 2018. Today was supposed to be the day we went back to having Eucharist. Ever since we decided in July to apply to reopen, I had been quietly thinking over what I might say on… View Post
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