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Sermon for Year B, The Third Sunday in LentBy The Rev. Torey LightcapMarch 8, 2015St. Thomas Episcopal ChurchJohn 2:13-22The Bible is the story of God, Who makes all of creation, and blesses it, And...
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Sermon for Year B, Maundy ThursdayBy The Rev. Torey LightcapApril 2, 2015St. Thomas Episcopal ChurchJohn 13:1-17, 31b-35In the name of God, my sisters and brothers, May each of us find the courage to...
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Sermon for Year B, Good FridayBy The Rev. Torey LightcapApril 3, 2015St. Thomas Episcopal ChurchThere is always a heaviness at this moment.A kind of quiet insistence, a ball in the stomach, and a knot...
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Markan textSermon for Year B, Easter VigilBy The Rev. Torey LightcapApril 4, 2015St. Thomas Episcopal ChurchMark 16:1-8Scholars pretty much concur that what you’ve just heard, in all likelihood, Is how...
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Sermon for Year B, Easter DayBy The Rev. Torey LightcapApril 5, 2015St. Thomas Episcopal ChurchMark 16:1-8My friends, I greet you all warmly this day in the name of God, And of God’s Son Jesus Christ...
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The Incredulity of Saint Thomas by Bernardo StrozziSermon for Year B, the Second Sunday of EasterBy The Rev. Torey LightcapApril 12, 2015St. Thomas Episcopal ChurchJohn 20:19-31Here we are, sitting in...
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Salvador Dali, Ascension (1958)Sermon for Year B, the Third Sunday of EasterBy The Rev. Torey LightcapApril 19, 2015St. Thomas Episcopal ChurchLuke 24:36b-48“...[T]hat repentance and forgiveness of...
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In the season of Lent almost upon us, this year, I will:partake of alcohol only in sacramental wine, refraining otherwise, and reflecting on the role alcohol and other substances have played in our...
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Sermon for Year B, the Last Sunday After EpiphanyBy The Rev. Torey LightcapFebruary 15, 2015St. Thomas Episcopal ChurchMark 9:2-9We just had Valentine’s Day, When cards and hearts and candy and flowers...
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Sermon for Year B, Ash WednesdayBy The Rev. Torey LightcapFebruary 19, 2015St. Thomas Episcopal ChurchToday, of course, is Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent.Lent is six-and-a-half weeks, forty days...
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Sermon for Year B, The First Sunday in LentBy The Rev. Torey LightcapFebruary 22, 2015St. Thomas Episcopal ChurchMark 1:9-15Jesus is driven out into the wilderness -- that is, the desert.He has “the...
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Sermon for Year B, Proper 18By The Rev. Torey LightcapSeptember 1, 2015St. Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church, Mission, KansasMark 7:24-37In the name of God – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit....
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Sermon for Year C, Good FridayBy The Rev. Torey LightcapMarch 25, 2016Grace Cathedral, Topeka, KansasLections AppointedIt would be so easy to only identify with the victim Jesus in this story.Make no...
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Sermon for Year C, Easter VigilBy The Rev. Torey LightcapMarch 26, 2016Grace Cathedral, Topeka, KansasLections AppointedLet’s just get all our cards on the table.How do you even begin to name a...
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Sermon for Year C, Easter SundayBy The Rev. Torey LightcapMarch 27, 2016St. Francis in the Pines Episcopal Church, Stilwell, KansasLections AppointedGood morning!Let me tell you an Easter story.When I...
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Sermon for Year A, Lent 3By The Rev. Torey LightcapMarch 19, 2017St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, Pittsburg, KansasJohn 4:5-42It’s a bit of a long story, but – I promise, it’ll take us somewhere. Let’s...
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Sermon for Year A, Tuesday in Holy WeekBy The Rev. Torey LightcapApril 11, 2017Grace Cathedral, Topeka, KansasMark 11:15-19As the Gospel of Mark attests, any person who would disrupt The normal flow of...
View ArticleLiving the long obedience – an ordination sermon
Sermon for OrdinationsBy The Rev. Torey LightcapJune 17, 2017Grace Episcopal Cathedral, Topeka, KansasIn the name of God and of God’s Son, Jesus Christ, the Good Shepherd, Our just and true North Star,...
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The following essay was judged a Finalist entry in the Poetry Unites Kansas contest held earlier this year for essays on poetry. Of about eighty entries received, this was selected in the top six by...
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Sermon for Year B, Proper 12By The Rev. Torey LightcapJuly 29, 2018St. Margaret’s Episcopal Church, Lawrence, KansasLections AppointedFrom now through the end of August, With the exception of one...
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Sermon for Year C, the Seventh Sunday of EasterBy The Rev. Torey LightcapJune 2, 2019St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Clay Center, KansasLections AppointedYesterday, many of us were privileged to witness...
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Sermon for Year C , Pentecost SundayBy The Rev. Torey LightcapJune 9, 2019St. Francis in the Pines Episcopal Church, Stilwell, KansasOn an afternoon in the late autumn, a boy of eight climbed into his...
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Sermon for Year C, Proper 9By The Rev. Torey LightcapJuly 9, 2019St. Aidan’s Episcopal Church, Olathe, KansasJesus gathers a crowd up and he says, Got a job for you.He says, I’d like to get out to a...
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[Please note: I originally wrote the following to appear in the Summer 2019 edition of The Harvest, a publication of the Episcopal Diocese of Kansas. After receiving a number of positive comments on...
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Sermon for Year C, Proper 19By The Rev. Canon Torey LightcapSeptember 15, 2019We probably hear these words of Jesus and equate these simple stories of lost objects With something that is not us–...
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