Father Nicholas Lang
Second Sunday After Pentecost
In the opening verses of today’s reading, Jesus has returned home to Nazareth for a time of respite from the crowds that press upon him...
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Father Nicholas Lang
- May 30, 2021
- 4 min
First Sunday after Pentecost —Trinity Sunday
If we are going to talk about such a deep and complicated theological belief as the doctrine of the Trinity, I think we need to start out...
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Father Nicholas Lang
- May 23, 2021
- 5 min
Pentecost
Several years ago a group of Episcopalians looking at the reasons churches grow, plateau, or decline and why that happens, met at The...
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Father Nicholas Lang
- May 16, 2021
- 4 min
Ascension Sunday
We never know what’s coming our way next, do we? We can plan well and plan far ahead. We can take precautions in advance of possible...
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Father Nicholas Lang
- May 9, 2021
- 4 min
The Sixth Sunday of Easter
“I have called you friends.” The dictionary definition of “friend” includes these two descriptions: A) A person whom one knows, likes,...
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Father Nicholas Lang
- May 2, 2021
- 4 min
The Fifth Sunday of Easter
A prophet once came to a city to convert its inhabitants. At first, people listened to his sermons, but gradually drifted away until no...
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Father Nicholas Lang
- Apr 25, 2021
- 4 min
The Fourth Sunday of Easter
What would your picture of God look like? I’ll bet most of us have photos of our loved ones on our desk or in our wallet or maybe as or...
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Father Nicholas Lang
- Apr 18, 2021
- 4 min
Third Sunday of Easter
Have you ever felt betrayed? Has someone you trusted thrown you under the bus? Was there ever a time when someone denied knowing you?...
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Father Nicholas Lang
- Apr 11, 2021
- 4 min
The Second Sunday of Easter
Doubt, a status between belief and disbelief that involves uncertainty or distrust or lack of sureness of an alleged fact, action,...
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Father Nicholas Lang
- Apr 4, 2021
- 4 min
Easter Sunday
Alleluia! Christ is risen! The Lord is risen indeed. Alleluia! Michael Patrick O’Malley, Jr. opened the morning newspaper and was...
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Father Nicholas Lang
- Mar 28, 2021
- 3 min
Palm Sunday
In the spring of 33 AD, there was a strange procession in Jerusalem. An unemployed, homeless young Rabbi entered the city on a donkey...
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Father Nicholas Lang
- Mar 21, 2021
- 4 min
The Fifth Sunday In Lent
The setting for today’s Gospel narrative is the Feast of Passover where people have come to the city from many parts of the world. The...
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Father Nicholas Lang
- Mar 14, 2021
- 4 min
The Fourth Sunday in Lent
The scriptures this morning present images of two things I very much dislike: snakes and darkness. I have never understood someone’s...
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Father Nicholas Lang
- Mar 7, 2021
- 5 min
The Third Sunday in Lent
You are walking down Main Street, minding your own business. As you pass by a church you hear this awful commotion—things crashing about...
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Father Nicholas Lang
- Feb 28, 2021
- 4 min
Second Sunday In Lent
A burglar was ransacking a house in the dark of night in pursuit of any valuables or cash when suddenly he heard a voice in the room:...
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Father Nicholas Lang
- Feb 21, 2021
- 5 min
First Sunday in Lent
Listening to the first reading today, it’s probably not lost on any of us that there is an uncanny, almost eerie coincidence that it’s a...
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Father Nicholas Lang
- Feb 17, 2021
- 3 min
Ash Wednesday
As I was preparing to preach this morning, I looked back at sermons I’ve preached on this day over the past several years. They span the...
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Father Nicholas Lang
- Feb 14, 2021
- 4 min
Last Epiphany: The Transfiguration
General Douglas MacArthur once told of a difficult situation he faced as a cadet at West Point. “The first section,” he wrote, “was...
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Father Nicholas Lang
- Feb 7, 2021
- 4 min
The Fifth Sunday After Epiphany
The great architect Frank Lloyd Wright was fond of relaying an incident that may have seemed insignificant at the time but had a profound...
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Father Nicholas Lang
- Jan 31, 2021
- 4 min
The Fourth Sunday After Epiphany
In today’s second reading, Paul weighs in on a dispute among the faith community in Corinth. Here is the issue: “Ought we to eat meat...
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