St. Gregory's Sermons

View PDF - The Easter Season begins with the Great Vigil and extends through the Great Fifty Days, including the day of Pentecost. It is a season of great joy and celebration of the mystery of Christ’s life, death, and resurrection.

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View PDF - Have no idea why the recording starts in the middle of Max's sermon.

The Easter Season begins with the Great Vigil and extends through the Great Fifty Days, including the day of Pentecost. It is a season of great joy and celebration of the mystery of Christ’s life, death, and resurrection.

All of our music is covered under our CCLI license #11167839.

View PDF - The Easter Season begins with the Great Vigil and extends through the Great Fifty Days, including the day of Pentecost. It is a season of great joy and celebration of the mystery of Christ’s life, death, and resurrection.

All of our music is covered under our CCLI license #11167839.

View PDF - The Easter Season begins with the Great Vigil and extends through the Great Fifty Days, including the day of Pentecost. It is a season of great joy and celebration of the mystery of Christ’s life, death, and resurrection. Many penitential elements common to our worship throughout the year are eliminated or subdued. We forego the collect for purity, confession and absolution – because the Lenten season and Holy Week have had plentiful opportunities for introspection, penitence, confession, and reconciliation. The season of abundance is symbolized by heightened elements of joy and praise, including singing as many elements as possible, elegant white hangings, abundant flowers, bells at high points of the liturgy, and abundant Alleluias!

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View PDF - The Great Vigil of Easter is the pinnacle of the Christian liturgical year. As Leonel Mitchell notes, “This ancient rite leads us from death to life with Christ through fire, light, word, water, bread, and wine. A new fire is kindled, a great candle is lighted, by its light the Bible is read, prayer and praise are offered, and we celebrate the Easter sacraments of baptism and eucharist.” We hear the great stories that shape our faith as the people of God, and celebrate our release from bondage to death, and freedom to new life through the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus. In this rite, the mystery of Easter comes alive, and we are a part in it.

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View PDF - Today is officially The Sunday of the Passion: Palm Sunday. Since the mid 300s, Christians have celebrated Jesus’ triumphant entry into Jerusalem on the Sunday before Easter. By the 12th century, the custom of blessing palms and having a procession to begin the worship was accepted everywhere. The weather in Chicago was nice enough that we could process around the church, first time three years.

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View PDF - In this season of preparation for Christ’s resurrection, and ours, we invite you to observe a holy Lent that is both meditative and joy-filled. We seek to create worship experiences that honor the solemnity of Lent while also making us more ready to celebrate the joy of new life at Easter.

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View PDF - In this season of preparation for Christ’s resurrection, and ours, we invite you to observe a holy Lent that is both meditative and joy-filled. We seek to create worship experiences that honor the solemnity of Lent while also making us more ready to celebrate the joy of new life at Easter.

All of our music is covered under our CCLI license #11167839.

View PDF - In this season of preparation for Christ’s resurrection, and ours, we invite you to observe a holy Lent that is both meditative and joy-filled. We seek to create worship experiences that honor the solemnity of Lent while also making us more ready to celebrate the joy of new life at Easter.

All of our music is covered under our CCLI license #11167839.

View PDF - In this season of preparation for Christ’s resurrection, and ours, we invite you to observe a holy Lent that is both meditative and joy-filled. We seek to create worship experiences that honor the solemnity of Lent while also making us more ready to celebrate the joy of new life at Easter.

All of our music is covered under our CCLI license #11167839.

View PDF - The season after Epiphany joins the Advent/Christmas seasons with the Lent/Easter seasons. It is a period of unfolding knowledge of who Jesus is to us. Week after week, we explore a new facet of Jesus’ presence in our lives on earth, and how he calls us to respond.

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View PDF - The season after Epiphany joins the Advent/Christmas seasons with the Lent/Easter seasons. It is a period of unfolding knowledge of who Jesus is to us. Week after week, we explore a new facet of Jesus’ presence in our lives on earth, and how he calls us to respond.

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View PDF - It was Scout Sunday! The season after Epiphany joins the Advent/Christmas seasons with the Lent/Easter seasons. It is a period of unfolding knowledge of who Jesus is to us. Week after week, we explore a new facet of Jesus’ presence in our lives on earth, and how he calls us to respond.

All of our music is covered under our CCLI license #11167839.

View PDF - The season after Epiphany joins the Advent/Christmas seasons with the Lent/Easter seasons. It is a period of unfolding knowledge of who Jesus is to us. Week after week, we explore a new facet of Jesus’ presence in our lives on earth, and how he calls us to respond.

All of our music is covered under our CCLI license #11167839.

View PDF - The season after Epiphany joins the Advent/Christmas seasons with the Lent/Easter seasons. It is a period of unfolding knowledge of who Jesus is to us. Week after week, we explore a new facet of Jesus’ presence in our lives on earth, and how he calls us to respond.

All of our music is covered under our CCLI license #11167839.

View PDF - The season after Epiphany joins the Advent/Christmas seasons with the Lent/Easter seasons. It is a period of unfolding knowledge of who Jesus is to us. Week after week, we explore a new facet of Jesus’ presence in our lives on earth, and how he calls us to respond.

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View PDF - Today, we celebrate Anne B. Jolly's ministry as she moved on to the Diocese of Ohio with all our good wishes.

The season after Epiphany joins the Advent/Christmas seasons with the Lent/Easter seasons. It is a period of unfolding knowledge of who Jesus is to us. Week after week, we explore a new facet of Jesus’ presence in our lives on earth, and how he calls us to respond.

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View PDF - At this service, we enter into the awe, wonder, and joy of the birth of our Savior. On this occasion, the whole world rejoices with exultant voices joined with angels to celebrate the miracle of God incarnate. All of our music is covered under our CCLI license #11167839

View PDF - At this service, we enter into the awe, wonder, and joy of the birth of our Savior. On this occasion, the whole world rejoices with exultant voices joined with angels to celebrate the miracle of God incarnate. Our worship today is filled with reminders of God’s presence among us: joyful hymns and music of praise just as the angels sang to announce the birth; candles and light to remind us of Christ’s light in our broken world; ringing bells to call our attention to the mystery of Christ’s birth, death, resurrection, and ascension; an exuberantly decorated space to remind us of God’s abundance; and white vestments and altar dressings to proclaim God’s pure, holy, and vulnerable presence in our lives and in the world.

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View PDF - Luke’s story of Christ’s birth takes us on a journey with a young couple who has been through an incredibly confusing and challenging time. They arrive in an out-of-the-way village after traveling a long distance from their own home, and find themselves without a place to stay. Mary gives birth to the son of God in less-than-ideal conditions. In our imaginations, she is surrounded by the warmth, smells, and noise of many animals as her labor companions. The shepherds asleep in the fields are awakened by startling brightness and angels singing God’s praises and announcing the birth of Jesus. The announcement brings awe, wonder, and joy.

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