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REMEMBER YOUR BAPTISM: When love comes to town
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Just a few sermons, ponderings, wanderings. Monday, May 18, 2015. When love comes to town. Sermon for Year B Easter 7. May 17, 2015. Cathedral Church of St. Paul. The Very Rev. Jeanne Finan. When love comes to town. He started out his life as Riley B. King. Born into a family of sharecroppers. In a little town outside of Itta Bena, Mississippi. His first work as a young boy was driving a tractor in the cotton fields. But what he really loved was music. He loved playing music. When we lived in Memphis.
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REMEMBER YOUR BAPTISM: May 2014
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Just a few sermons, ponderings, wanderings. Saturday, May 31, 2014. This is the day! May 31, 2014. Today I will be installed as the Twenty-third Rector and the Sixth Dean of the Cathedral Church of St. Paul in Burlington, Vermont. It is a glorious day here. So many people have worked so hard and traveled so far to make this day the celebration it will no doubt be. It all starts with brass and timpani at 5 pm. Oh-no, did we ever find a copy of the diocesan canons? What a day this is! I am excited, delight...
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REMEMBER YOUR BAPTISM: March 2015
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Just a few sermons, ponderings, wanderings. Monday, March 9, 2015. The Chair in the Doorway. Sermon for Year B Lent 3. March 8, 2015. Cathedral Church of St. Paul, Burlington, VT. The Rev. Jeanne Finan. The Chair in the Doorway. Sixteen tons and what do you get. Another day older and deeper in debt. St Peter don’t you call me cause I can’t go. I owe my soul to the Company Store. This is an old Johnny Cash song,. A song about the life of coal miners who can’t make ends meet. No matter how hard they work.
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REMEMBER YOUR BAPTISM: I have no proof...
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Just a few sermons, ponderings, wanderings. Monday, April 6, 2015. I have no proof. Sermon for Year A Easter Vigil. April 4, 2015. The Cathedral Church of St. Paul, Burlington, Vermont. The Very Rev. Jeanne Finan. I have no proof. Scholar, poet, professor,. A very faithful Christian. He was baptized and confirmed. As John Ronald Reuel Tolkien. We know him better today as. J R R Tolkien,. The author of The Hobbit. And The Lord of the Rings. If he couldn’t find just the right word. He would invent one.
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REMEMBER YOUR BAPTISM: July 2014
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Just a few sermons, ponderings, wanderings. Saturday, July 19, 2014. A sower went out to sow. Jesus is talking to a huge crowd of people. There are so many people gathered around him on the beach,. That he gets into a boat and goes out onto the water. I always thought this behavior was a little strange,. Until I moved here to Burlington. I used to think that Jesus was just not fond of crowds,. That he needed a little space. That’s why he moved out onto the water. But some of you who live on the Lake,.
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REMEMBER YOUR BAPTISM: The Chair in the Doorway
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Just a few sermons, ponderings, wanderings. Monday, March 9, 2015. The Chair in the Doorway. Sermon for Year B Lent 3. March 8, 2015. Cathedral Church of St. Paul, Burlington, VT. The Rev. Jeanne Finan. The Chair in the Doorway. Sixteen tons and what do you get. Another day older and deeper in debt. St Peter don’t you call me cause I can’t go. I owe my soul to the Company Store. This is an old Johnny Cash song,. A song about the life of coal miners who can’t make ends meet. No matter how hard they work.
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REMEMBER YOUR BAPTISM: August 2014
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Just a few sermons, ponderings, wanderings. Monday, August 25, 2014. Let it be done for you as you wish." And her daughter was healed instantly. In Benjamin Hoff’s book The Tao of Pooh,. Hoff tells a story about the Japanese Emperor Hirohito:. The emperor was a very, very busy man. From the rising of the sun to its setting,. He lived with a very tightly controlled schedule. Of meetings, speeches, audiences,. And other important responsibilities. 8232;One day,. One very busy day,. It was completely empty.
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REMEMBER YOUR BAPTISM: June 2014
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Just a few sermons, ponderings, wanderings. Sunday, June 8, 2014. Sermon for the Feast of Pentecost 2014. Sermon for the Feast of Pentecost. June 8, 2014. Earlier this week I had lunch downtown with a new friend. After lunch we said goodbye to one another and she headed one direction. And I headed the other. Now I was in a hurry. I had a meeting back at the church. And as I walked I was searching through my purse,. Looking for my phone to check my messages. I was definitely not paying attention. They wer...
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REMEMBER YOUR BAPTISM: Bear Season
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Just a few sermons, ponderings, wanderings. Monday, February 23, 2015. Sermon for Year B Lent 1. February 22, 2014. Cathedral Church of St. Paul. The Very Rev. Jeanne Finan. In those days Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan. And just as he was coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens torn apart and the Spirit descending like a dove on him. And a voice came from heaven, "You are my Son, the Beloved; with you I am well pleased.". On Ash Wednesday,. Getting ready...
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REMEMBER YOUR BAPTISM: God's Suitcase
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Just a few sermons, ponderings, wanderings. Monday, May 18, 2015. Sermon Year B Easter 5. May 3, 2015. Cathedral Church of St. Paul, Burlington, VT. The Very Rev. Jeanne Finan. Our daughter and her family. Were packing for a weekend trip,. When she overhears in the next room,. Her little daughter Penelope, who just turned five,. Saying to her brother Silas,. Who is two years old,. 8220;Silas, we don’t have much room in the suitcase. We’ll have to leave your pants behind.”. None of us is the vine;. Of the...