In My Mother’s House of Many Rooms

Sermon Preached on May 10, 2020 – Fifth Sunday of Easter By The Rev. Dr. Nina R. Pooley St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church, Yarmouth, ME Canticle of St. Anselm of Canterbury: A Song of Christ’s Goodness, from Enriching Our Worship Psalm 31:1-5, 15-16 John 14:1-14 In My Mother’s House of Many Rooms This morning we have …

Abundant Life in the Season of COVID

Sermon Preached on May 3, 2020 – Fourth Sunday of Easter By The Rev. Dr. Nina R. Pooley St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church, Yarmouth, ME Acts 2:42-47 Psalm 23 John 10:1-10 Abundant Life in the Season of COVID Friends, This is a disorienting time - in so many ways. Of course it is, our patterns of …

Third Sunday of Easter, April 26, 2020

A sermon for the Episcopal Diocese of Maine, preached by the bishop, the Right Reverend Thomas J. Brown, for the Third Sunday of Easter, 26 April 2020. To God be the glory. If you ever watched Call the Midwife you might agree that the episodes are sermons. There’s no exegesis of biblical texts, but like …

Witness Lament Demand

Sermon Preached on April 19, 2020 – Second Sunday of Easter By The Rev. Dr. Nina R. Pooley St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church, Yarmouth, ME Acts 2:14a, 22-32 Psalm 16 John 20:19-31 Witness Lament Demand Here we are, in the early days of Easter still, having finished - what one social media meme called, “the Lentiest …

Reflection on Easter Morning

Reflection on Easter Morning - April 12, 2020 By The Rev. Dr. Nina R. Pooley St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church, Yarmouth, ME Scripture Reading: John 20:1-18 We are living in a time when we, like Mary, find ourselves going to the tomb, checking on the dead, listening to hear the numbers of those who have died, …

Reflection on Maundy Thursday

Reflection on Maundy Thursday - April 9, 2020 By The Rev. Dr. Nina R. Pooley St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church, Yarmouth, ME Exodus 12:1-14 Psalm 116: 1-4, 6-8, 10-12 1 Corinthians 11:23-26 John 13:1–17, 31b–35 This is the week when we remember all that was done for us. And we let it become personal, we let …

Strange Days Indeed

Sermon Preached on April 5, 2020–Palm Sunday By The Rev. Dr. Nina R. Pooley St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church, Yarmouth, ME Zechariah 9:9-12 Philippians 2:5-11 Matthew 21:1-11 Strange Days Indeed To say these are strange days seems like a ridiculous understatement - surpassed only by preaching as if life were normal. Knowing that we wouldn't be …

Prophesy and Raise the Dead: Joining Ezekiel and Lazarus

Prophesy and Raise the Dead: Joining Ezekiel and Lazarus A sermon for the Episcopal Diocese of Maine, preached by the Bishop, the Right Reverend Thomas James Brown, for the Fifth Sunday in Lent, 29 March 2020. The Bishop of Vermont spoke recently about how this pandemic creates, right now, a sense of being exiled. We …

Seeing Even Now

Sermon Preached on March 22, 2020–Lent IV By The Rev. Dr. Nina R. Pooley St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church, Yarmouth, ME Samuel 16:1-13 Psalm 23 Ephesians 5:8-14 John 9:1-41 Seeing Even Now Ken and I went on an unscheduled COVID-19 road trip on Friday, and everything looked different. There was virtually no traffic, even in places …

Unprecedented

Sermon Preached on March 15, 2020–Lent III By The Rev. Dr. Nina R. Pooley St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church, Yarmouth, ME Exodus 17:1-7 Psalm 95 Romans 5:1-11 John 4:5-42 Unprecedented What a strange Lenten wilderness we find ourselves stumbling through! The coronavirus has put us in "an unprecedented situation" (at least unprecedented for us). And we …