The Rev. Richard Lampert
Pentecost 4
Father’s Day

“What is your name? My name is Legion, for we are many!” Lk. 8.26-39

Mother’s Day (the Second Sunday in May) was always greeted with much enthusiasm in the early 1900‘s. Father’s Day was met with laughter and ridicule by many people and newspapers. Some called it just another campaign to fill the calendar with “mindless commercial promotions.” Some days it’s tough to be a Father, a Mother or a Kid!

Thanks be to God for Sonora Smart Dodd of Spokane, Washington! In 1909, while listening to a sermon about the newly recognized Mother’s Day in The Central Methodist Episcopal Church, she decided that fatherhood also needed to be honored! She wanted a celebration that would respect fathers like her own. William Jackson Smart (a Civil War veteran) raised his family of six by himself after his wife died giving birth to their last child. Since Sonora’s dad was born in June, she chose to celebrate Father’s Day on June 19, 1910. Today, Father’s Day is celebrated in 55 countries on the third Sunday of June. Today, we honor fathers (and mothers and kids too)! Continue reading ‘Sermon - 20 June 2010’ »

3rd Sunday after Pentecost

Sermon Preached by the Rev. Richard Marsden
Proper 5 (10) RCL

Luke 7: 11-24

This day some many years ago was a very lonely day for one man; possibly the loneliest of his life.

Some hours before he had made a crucial decision—a decision that was his and his alone to make. This decision put hundreds of thousands of lives at stake and would indeed, he knew, cost hundreds if not thousands of lives. He felt the responsibility for those lives.

It is not far fetched to say that on his one decision the life of nations depended—the future of the world itself rested on this man’s yes or no. Continue reading ‘Sermon - 6 June 2010’ »

2nd Sunday after Pentecost

Sermon preached by The Rev. Richard Lampert
Trinity Sunday

Sermon Preached by the Rev. Richard Marsden
Pentecost 10

John 14:8-27
Acts 2:1-21

I know some of you are a bit confused about what just happened. The gospel lesson was read in a number of different languages—and it probably felt a bit like this on that day we celebrate today, so many years ago –where untrained, common men—in the days before Rosetta Stone—proclaimed the gospel miraculously to the world. This holy day reminds us of an amazing event, and an amazing heritage that maybe we don’t give enough attention to these days. Continue reading ‘Sermon - 23 May 2010’ »

Sermon preached by The Rev. Richard Marsden

The Pelican, Volume 14, Number 11 - June 2010 (1,737 KB)

Seventh Sunday of Easter

Sixth Sunday In Easter