Readings from Sunday, October 15.

Unfortunately, our (digital) recorder crashed Sunday morning and did not record, so there is no gospel or sermon to transmit.

For 2023 (year A), the readings for the 20th Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 23) are:

OT Lesson Isaiah 25:1-9
Psalm Psalm 23 (Coverdale)
NT Lesson Philippians 4:4-13
Gospel Matthew 22:1-14

 

Sermon and Readings from Sunday, October 8.

St. Alban’s Family:  For 2023 (year A), the readings for the 19th Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 22) are:

OT Lesson Ezekiel 18:1-4,25-32
Psalm Psalm 25:1-14(15-21) (Coverdale)
NT Lesson Philippians 2:1-13
Gospel Matthew 21:28-32

A recorder problem lost the gospel reading and almost a minute of this fourth and final sermon in a series on the book of Jonah, but the final 16 minutes, attached, are good.

Sermons & Readings from Sunday, October 1.

Gospel:

Children’s Sermon:

Sermon:

St. Alban’s Family: Again this week, Sunday “Sermons” included a children’s sermon.  There was a serious glitch this week — no recorder — but several gracious congregants used their phones to record the proceedings. Their contributions were synchronized, filtered and mixed to provide a reasonable facsimile of the usual sound system; regrettably, that process delayed the distribution of this third sermon in a series on the book of Jonah.

For 2023 (year A), the readings for the 18th Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 21) are:

OT Lesson Ezekiel 18:1-4,25-32
Psalm Psalm 25:1-14(15-21) (Coverdale)
NT Lesson Philippians 2:1-13
Gospel Matthew 21:28-32

 

Sermons and Readings from Sunday, September 24.

Children’s Sermon:

Prelude:

Sermon:

St. Alban’s Family: Yes, you read that subject line correctly: “Sermons” is plural.  There is no gospel reading for today, because the chalicist, who would normally record it, was doubling as one of the acolytes assisting at the gospel reading.  However, this second week of a sermon series on the book of Jonah includes a children’s sermon — and a sermon prelude with (befitting the Jonah story) a lost-and-found theme — in addition to the sermon.

For 2023 (year A), the readings for the 17th Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 20) are:

OT Lesson Jonah 3:10-4:11
Psalm Psalm 145:14-21 (Coverdale)
NT Lesson Philippians 1:21-27
Gospel Matthew 20:1-16

 

Sermon and Readings from Sunday, September 17.

For this Sunday, September 17, an initial problem with the recorder was resolved during the service.  The problem meant loss of the gospel and children’s sermon, but it was fixed in time to record essentially all of the presentation introducing a new sermon series. Readings for the 16th Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 19) were:

1st Lesson (from Apocrypha) Sirach 27:30-28:7
Psalm Psalm 103 (Coverdale)
NT Lesson Romans 14:5-12
Gospel Matthew 18:21-35

The sermon is attached, the first in a series on the book of Jonah: “Mercy in the Mess, The Life and Times of Jonah.”

Readings from Sunday, September 10.

St. Alban’s Family: There were problems with the recording for September 10 that proved unsolvable, so there was no sermon distribution for last week.  However, the readings for the 15th Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 18) were:

OT Lesson Ezekiel 33:1-11
Psalm Psalm 119:33-48 (Coverdale)
NT Lesson Romans 12:9-21
Gospel Matthew 18:15-20