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The Last Sunday after Pentecost The Feast of Christ the King Revelation 1:4b-8, John 18:33-37 November 25, 2018 St. Mark’s Boligee            When it comes to Thanksgiving there are certain traditions that are essential to my celebration.  I traditionally eat too much.  There are certain foods I look forward to such as sweet potato casserole, cranberry sauce, and of course – turkey and dressing.  One of my mother’s favorite Thanksgiving stories was the year she served a Roast.  My father had finished his Ph.D. and he was now a college professor.  My mother wanted to celebrate with a very special Thanksgiving meal.  She prepared a true feast with the finest Roast from the meat market.  It was my father’s favorite meal, but my brother, sister, and I didn’t quite see it that way.  We decided that we must be poor – so poor that we couldn’t afford a Thanksgiving Turkey and instead cou...

Pentecost 26, Proper 28B Mark 13:1-8 November 18, 2018 St. Matthias            This week I was fooled for the first time in a long time.  My cell phone rang.  It was an area code 205 number with a prefix of 757.  That’s close to my cell phone number and so I thought it was someone I knew calling me from their cell phone.  AND then I heard it.  A recording telling me I can get a new VISA card.  I hung up.  I like my United VISA card just fine.  And I don’t buy anything over the phone.  I generally don’t even listen to ROBO calls whether its VISA, Tickets, or politicians.  Use to you could tell because SALES calls used 1-800 numbers or some number from someplace that I knew I didn’t know anyone who lived there.  I’d ignore it.  The calls would go away.  But now it's not that easy.  They are using local numbers – and I answer because it could be one of you ...

All Saints’ Sunday John 11:32-44 November 4, 2018 St. Matthias Today we celebrate the Feast of St. Alvin of Mansfield.  If this is your first time to hear of St. Alvin – you are not alone – most people haven’t.  But to the people of Mansfield, Louisiana and everyone in my family – including me – my grandfather was and is a Saint.  It’s also the Feast of St. Marie of Mansfield – my grandmother - and the feast of so many saints who are known only to God and to you and me.  Today we celebrate everyone who does not have a day on the Church calendar, but who are the Saints of God in Glory.  These are the people who showed us by their word and deed that God is with us and Christ lives within us and who know with all certainty what we accept in faith.  There really is a Kingdom of Heaven. I must admit that I like the whole idea of Saints.  There are those we all know about such as Peter, James, and John along with all the prophets, apostle...