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Sermon on August 24, 2025“Cultivating Connection”By: The Ven. Margaret Grayden Eighteen years is a long time to suffer–ask anyone who lives with a chronic disease or condition. Imagine what it was like for the woman we encounter in this morning’s Gospel reading. For eighteen years, she suffered from some sort of debilitating condition that caused her to be bent over. We don’t know anything more about her condition–or about her, for that matter. We don’t know what brought her to the synagogue that day. Perhaps it was her custom to worship there on the Sabbath. Perhaps her family had brought...
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Sermon on August 10, 2025“Led by Faith”By: Seminarian Anthony Amato When I was a little kid, there was a movie I watched that taught me what faith was like, and it left a really big impression on me. There’s a scene where the main protagonist, in his quest to find the Holy Grail, crosses a deep and perilous chasm by walking over a bridge that he cannot see. This scene depicts a literal walk of faith, whereby faith becomes the very thing enabling him to walk the path ahead and reach the very cup that Jesus used at the Last...
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Sermon on July 27, 2025“Teach Us to Pray”By: Rev. Debbie Hawkins ‘Lord, teach us to pray,’ someone said. ‘John teaches his disciples. We are your disciples. Teach us how to pray like you. You chose us but we also chose you. You have something we can’t quite put our finger on, but we want it too and it has something to do with prayer. Should we hold our hands like this or like this. Should we stand or kneel or sit? Do we dare be as bold as Abraham? Lord, teach us to pray.’ So, he does. A few short...
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Sermon on June 15, 2025“The Holy Trinity”By: Kimo Kimokeo Good Morning. Just in case you don’t know me, my name is Kimo Kimokeo. I’ve been part of the flock here at St. Martin’s for a few years now. With a name like Kimo you’re probably wondering or guessing, yes, I am Native Hawaiian, born in Hawaii, on the Island of Kauai, when Hawaii was still a territory of the United States -not a state- so that can give you an idea of how old I am. For any of you who have ever traveled to Hawaii, you know it is...
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Sermon on May 18, 2025“Making All Things New, for the Healing of the World”By: The Very Rev. Pamela Dolan “See, I am making all things new!” What a magnificent summary of the message of Easter, if not actually the whole story of salvation at the heart of our faith. It almost has the power of a credal statement: God is making all things new, and God wants us to be part of that work of bringing newness, new life and vitality, into the world. This is, without doubt, the good news that we are called to share with the world....
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Sermon on April 20, 2025“Longing and Love”: A Sermon for Easter DayBy: The Very Rev. Pamela Dolan “While it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed.” While it was still dark—what an evocative, haunting phrase. So many good things start while it is still dark, and yet so often we respond to darkness as if it is all there is, as if it will swallow us up and leave nothing but emptiness and death behind. It takes courage to look at darkness and emptiness and find in it not a...
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Sermon on April 19, 2025“Longing and Love”: A Sermon for Easter VigilBy: The Very Rev. Pamela Dolan This Lent we have been singing a hymn every week with the lovely, haunting refrain, “There is a longing in our hearts, O Lord, for you to reveal yourself to us.” The song goes on to acknowledge our need for God when our lives are plunged in sorrow or fear and suggests that it is in our prayers for justice, mercy, wisdom, and courage that God draws near. And over and over we sing the refrain—there is a longing in our hearts, a...
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Sermon on March 23, 2025“The Fig Tree and God”By: The Very Rev. Pamela Dolan “Spring is a lovely reminder that change can be beautiful.” I read this on a greeting card the other day, and it’s stuck with me. If I’m honest, I think one reason it stuck with me is that I’m not sure how much I agree with it. Spring has its lovely moments, of course, but personally I’m more of an autumn girl. I love inhaling crisp air, watching leaves change color, pulling out my favorite sweaters, and indulging in both the drama and the coziness of...
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Sermon on March 9, 2025“Being Tested in the Wilderness”By: The Very Rev. Pamela Dolan “Lead us not into temptation.” This phrase is from the version of the Lord’s Prayer that I learned as a child, the version that we still use in our Rite I liturgy. The more contemporary version reads, “Save us from the time of trial.” Both temptation and trial are ways to look at what happens in today’s Gospel story, the episode about Jesus in the wilderness that always appears at the beginning of the season of Lent. Another word, one that many scholars think is the...
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Sermon on February 16, 2025“People of Both-And”By: The Ven. Margaret Grayden The Via Media, or “the middle way,” is one of the most distinctive characteristics of the Anglican tradition in which the Episcopal Church is rooted. In theological terms, the Via Media represents the blending of elements from the Protestant Reformation with elements from Roman Catholicism in a kind of happy medium—the best of both worlds. Not surprisingly, this approach to faith works well for people who tend to see the shades of gray in a situation, rather than black-and-white absolutes. Indeed, you might say that as Episcopalians who follow...
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Sermon on February 9, 2025“Go Deeper”: A Sermon for Epiphany 5By: The Very Rev. Pamela DolanGospel passage: Luke 5:1-11 Sermon text: I’m going to be honest and just say up front that I’ve never been crazy about that image of “fishing for men,” even when it is changed to the slightly softer version, “catching people.” I guess it boils down to a feeling that I don’t want to be caught; I don’t want to be anyone’s target, or fill anyone’s quota, and I really don’t want to think of activities and services that the church provides as bait for unsuspecting...
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Sermon by: The Very Rev. Pamela DolanSermon for Christmas Day December 25, 2024 “Light & Life” There’s a reason that candles and lights are one of our favorite symbols of Christmas. In the northern hemisphere, Christmas occurs just a few days after the winter solstice, when we have become accustomed to longer and longer nights and shorter and shorter days. Even if we’re used to the darkness, most of us are still longing for just a little more light in the world, in our homes, and maybe even in our hearts. There are so many places around the world today...
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Sermon by: The Very Rev. Pamela DolanSermon for Christmas Eve December 24, 2024“Refugia” I was in fifth grade, sitting in a classroom in Aikahi Elementary School in Kailua, Hawaii, when I heard about the eruption of Mt. St. Helens. Like most of my classmates, I thought I already had a pretty good sense of the power of volcanoes. We had all seen eruptions and lava flows, either in person or in pictures, as part of learning about our home state’s ecology, culture, and history. But I don’t think anyone was prepared for what happened in Washington state that spring day...
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Sermon by: The Very Rev. Pamela DolanSermon for Advent 3, December 15, 2024“Bah Humbug, You Brood of Vipers” If you are lucky enough to still be receiving actual Christmas cards in the mail, I think it’s a safe bet that very few of this year’s selection will feature pictures of a wild-eyed John the Baptist preaching repentance by the River Jordan or will be adorned with the message “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?” This week’s Gospel passage emphasizes once again the countercultural, uncouth, not-ready-for-prime-time ways of this Advent prophet. He is...
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Sermon by: The Very Rev. Pamela Dolan“The Compassion of God“Dec 8, 2024 In the Monastery of the Cross, an Eastern Orthodox monastery in the city of Jerusalem, there is a medieval fresco depicting two men. One is elderly, with a long gray beard, wearing the rich robes of a priest or temple official. The other is younger, wearing animal skins and a rough outer cloak. Their faces are uncannily similar and bear the same stern, somewhat pinched expression; if this looks like a family resemblance, that’s not a coincidence, as the men pictured are Zechariah and his son John, also...
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Sermon by: The Rev. Pamela Dolan“Prophets, Presence, and the Promise of Truth“Dec 1, 2024 “Be on guard so that your hearts are not weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and the worries of this life, and that day catch you unexpectedly, like a trap.” Those of us who are prone to anxiety anyway probably don’t much like to hear words like this coming from Jesus. Aren’t we all on edge enough these days without our actual Lord and Savior telling us that we’d better get busy and do something before the other shoe drops, because the other shoe is going...
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Sermon by: The Rev. Pamela Dolan“Apocalypse Now“Nov 17, 2024Reading: The Gospel of Mark 13:1-8 If you are a film buff, the word “apocalypse” may bring to mind images from the 1977 movie Apocalypse Now, images of the terror and darkness, violence and death, associated with war at its most malign and chaotic depths. This is just one of many examples of how our cultural idea of apocalypse focuses almost exclusively on destruction, collapse, and even the end times. Common synonyms for the word “apocalypse” are disaster, calamity, catastrophe, and inferno. And yet, as I have probably said every year around...
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Sermon by: The Rev. Pamela Dolan“Here and Now: A Moment that Matters“A Sermon for All Saints’ SundayNov 3, 2024 In an introduction to the book All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis, Ayana Elizabeth Johnson wrote, “It is a magnificent thing to be alive in a moment that matters so much.”[i] I have to tell you, I sat with this sentence for a long time. Really? Does she mean this time, right now? This time when we are living through multiple potentially existential crises, from the accelerating climate emergency, to the unraveling of institutions that...
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Sermon by: The Rev. Pamela Dolan“Walking the Way”September 29, 2024Text: Mark 9:38-50 Have you ever heard people say that they want to “burn it all down”? The “it” in question is usually an institution or a powerful force in our society, like patriarchy or capitalism or colonialism. This is intentionally provocative, even triggering language. There is an argument to be made that language like that is not constructive, that it only serves to divide people and sometimes even leads people to commit acts of violence. On the other hand, there is a counter-argument that says that sometimes the only way...
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Sermon by: The Rev. Pamela Dolan“Walk in Love”October 20, 2024 “Walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.” This verse from Paul’s letter to the Ephesians is the source of the offertory sentence that is used most regularly in the Episcopal Church. Liturgically, it is said at the moment when we move from Word to Table, from a focus on listening and responding to God’s word to a focus on receiving Holy Communion, that sacramental action of blessing, breaking, and partaking of Christ’s body. The offertory sentence is a...
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