The Houghton Missioner

Trinity Episcopal Church (Christmas Sermon 2019) In the beginning was the Word. For when all things began the Word already was. That Word dwelt with God. And What God was, the Word was. That Divine Word, then, was with God at the beginning, and through him all things came to be. No single thing was created without him. All that came to be, was alive with his Life - And that life was the light of humankind. The Light shines on in the dark, and the darkness has never quenched it. [1] There was a time when everything (and everyone) we have ever seen – everything we’ve ever touched, tasted, smelled, or heard - was not. When reality, the cosmos, the atoms and energy that make up our universe (our bodies) simply were not (did not exist). Whether one subscribes to the idea of the Big Bang (proposed by Catholic Priest George Lemaitre), or Stephen Hawkings’ idea that the substance of the universe just kind of emerged out of no-space and no-time, or any of the va...

Trinity Episcopal Church (Advent I – Year A) Sunday, December 1 st   AD 2019 “You know what time it is, how it is now the moment for you to wake from sleep.”   (Romans 13:11)   I remember my mom waking me up in the dead of night on one late-December Evening when I was about four years old. “Shane.” She whispered, as if she were afraid she might be overheard. “I heard a clatter on the roof.” Clatter, I had recently learned from a Christmas movie featuring Tim Allen, was a word that meant big noise. And suddenly, there arose such a clatter. I suddenly became wide-awake with anticipation, and my mom said that she thought she heard someone on the roof of the house. So we crawled over to my bedroom window to see if we could see anything outside. Now our house was shaped a bit like the letter “L.” The bedroom where I was sleeping was on one end of the L with a window facing inward (so one could see the other end of the house where my mom and dad’s ...