Category: Sermons

By: The Rev. Mary Foulke February 16, 2020 • Epiphany 6A Good morning St. Mary’s. For a couple of weeks now I have been reflecting on the concept of integrity, and how we seem to have lost all sense of it in our culture. In the dictionary integrity is defined as the quality of being … Continue reading Sermon: The Costs to Integrity

5th Sunday after Pentecost • Proper 10 C track 2, 7/14/2019 Good Morning St. Mary’s!  It seems we couldn’t pick a more fitting scripture for this Sunday, a Sunday when raids are threatening to round up immigrants in our city and other cities - our impulse is to define this scripture as the obvious call … Continue reading Reflection on the danger of claiming: “We are all immigrants” July 2019

by The Rev. Dr. Mary L. Foulke Sunday, June 2, 2019 Good Morning St. Mary’s! There is one of those sayings that has been going around for a long time, even before social media people had little posters of it: “if you want to make God laugh, make plans.” It’s a guess, but I think … Continue reading Sermon: The Sixth Sunday of Easter

As a small sermon-helper of mine pointed out recently, Mother’s Day is not only a day celebrated by Christians. It is a holiday recognized by many Americans of different faith traditions. Likewise, it is much more than a day simply marked by chocolates, flowers, treats and telephone calls although, as the sermon helper was quick to add, those things should … Continue reading Mother’s Day Sermon, May 8, 2011