All Saints’ Center for Theology

New Covenant Reconciliation

Sun, 25 Mar 2012 11:49:22 -0400

Preached by deacon Martha Learned.

Running time: 24:44

Prayer in the Life of Discipleship

Sun, 11 Mar 2012 11:53:31 -0400

Preached by Fr. Michael Morse, Priest-in-Charge of All Saints’ Anglican Church.

Running time: 29:15

Transformation in the Cross

Sun, 4 Mar 2012 16:39:42 -0500

Preached by Rev. Susan Skillen, Canon of Spiritual Formation.

Running time: 20:55

The Devoted Life of Discipleship

Sun, 26 Feb 2012 11:57:27 -0500

Preached by Fr. Michael Morse.

Running time: 27:55

Reaching Out with the Compassion of Christ

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 16:55:21 -0500

Preached by Fr. Michael Morse, Priest in Charge of All Saints Anglican Church.

Running Time: 24:13

Proclaiming the Gospel

Sun, 5 Feb 2012 15:07:22 -0500

Preached by Fr. Michael Morse

Running time: 26:42

Transitions in Leadership and Transitions in Life

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 13:11:32 -0500

Preached by Bishop Bill Murdoch.

Running time: 52:07

The Call, the Called, and the Call Waiting

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 14:36:51 -0500

Preached by Bishop Bill Murdoch.

Running time: 21:48

The Essence of the Church

Sun, 15 Jan 2012 11:49:53 -0500

Preached by Fr. Michael Morse.

Running time: 23:16

Sermon from the bishop

Sun, 15 Jan 2012 10:39:51 -0500

Preached by Bishop Bill Murdoch.

Running time: 16:11

The Name of Jesus

Sun, 1 Jan 2012 18:28:26 -0500

Preached by Susan Skillen, the Canon of Spiritual Formation in the Anglican Diocese in New England.

Anglican Divines: George Herbert and John Donne

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 19:59:42 -0500

The “Via media”
The “middle way” of Anglicanism

The Anglican via media: The fact is, many Episcopalian/Anglican congregations (and almost all of the growing ones) seem to be half former-Catholics and half former-evangelicals meeting in the middle!

“Lex orandi, lex credendi”
The law of prayer is the law of belief

The worship and prayer of the church is the foundation for the articulation of the church’s belief.

Preface to the 1662 Book of Common Prayer:

“It has been the wisdom of the Church of England, ever since the first compiling of her Public Liturgy, to keep the mean between the two extremes, of too much stiffness in refusing, and of too much easiness in admitting any variation from it.”

Confession of Sin:

Most merciful God, we confess that we have sinned against you in thought, word, and deed, by what we have done, and by what we have left undone. We have not loved you with our whole heart; we have not loved our neighbors as ourselves. We are truly sorry and we humbly repent, for the sake of your Son Jesus Christ, have mercy on us and forgive us; that we may delight in your will, and walk in your ways, to the glory of your Name. Amen.
George Herbert’s Christmas

I.
After all pleasures as I rid one day,
My horse and I, both tired, body and mind,
With full cry of affections, quite astray;
I took up the next inn I could find.

There when I came, whom found I but my dear,
My dearest Lord, expecting till the grief
Of pleasures brought me to Him, ready there
To be all passengers' most sweet relief?

Oh Thou, whose glorious, yet contracted light,
Wrapt in night's mantle, stole into a manger;
Since my dark soul and brutish is Thy right,
To man of all beasts be not Thou a stranger:

Furnish and deck my soul, that Thou mayst have
A better lodging, than a rack, or grave.

II.

The shepherds sing; and shall I silent be?
      My God, no hymn for Thee?
My soul's a shepherd too; a flock it feeds
      Of thoughts, and words, and deeds.
The pasture is Thy word: the streams, Thy grace
      Enriching all the place.
Shepherd and flock shall sing, and all my powers
      Outsing the daylight hours.
Then will we chide the sun for letting night
      Take up his place and right:
We sing one common Lord; wherefore he should
      Himself the candle hold.
I will go searching, till I find a sun
      Shall stay, till we have done;
A willing shiner, that shall shine as gladly,
      As frost-nipped suns look sadly.
Then will we sing, and shine all our own day,
      And one another pay:
His beams shall cheer my breast, and both so twine,
Till ev'n His beams sing, and my music shine.

John Donne’s Batter My Heart, Three-Person’d God

Batter my heart, three-personed God, for you
As yet but knock, breathe, shine, and seek to mend;
That I may rise, and stand, o'erthrow me, and bend
Your force to break, blow, burn, and make me new.
I, like an usurped town, to another due,
Labour to admit you, but Oh, to no end.
Reason, your viceroy in me, me should defend,
But is captived, and proves weak or untrue.
Yet dearly I love you, and would be loved fain,
But am betrothed unto your enemy:
Divorce me, untie or break that knot again,
Take me to you, imprison me, for I,
Except you enthrall me, never shall be free,
Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.

George Herbert’s The Call

Come, my Way, my Truth, my Life :
Such a Way, as gives us breath :
Such a Truth, as ends all strife :
And such a Life, as killeth death.

Come, my Light, my Feast, my Strength :
Such a Light, as shows a feast :
Such a Feast, as mends in length :
Such a Strength, as makes his guest.

Come, my Joy, my Love, my Heart :
Such a Joy, as none can move :
Such a Love, as none can part :
Such a Heart, as joyes in love.

John Donne’s La Corona

ANNUNCIATION.

Salvation to all that will is nigh ;
That All, which always is all everywhere,
Which cannot sin, and yet all sins must bear,
Which cannot die, yet cannot choose but die,
Lo ! faithful Virgin, yields Himself to lie
In prison, in thy womb ; and though He there
Can take no sin, nor thou give, yet He'll wear,
Taken from thence, flesh, which death's force may try.
Ere by the spheres time was created thou
Wast in His mind, who is thy Son, and Brother ;
Whom thou conceivest, conceived ; yea, thou art now
Thy Maker's maker, and thy Father's mother,
Thou hast light in dark, and shutt'st in little room
Immensity, cloister'd in thy dear womb.

NATIVITY.

Immensity, cloister'd in thy dear womb,
Now leaves His well-beloved imprisonment.
There he hath made himself to his intent
Weak enough, now into our world to come.
But O ! for thee, for Him, hath th' inn no room ?
Yet lay Him in this stall, and from th' orient,
Stars, and wise men will travel to prevent
The effects of Herod's jealous general doom.
See'st thou, my soul, with thy faith's eye, how He
Which fills all place, yet none holds Him, doth lie ?
Was not His pity towards thee wondrous high,
That would have need to be pitied by thee ?
Kiss Him, and with Him into Egypt go,
With His kind mother, who partakes thy woe.

RESURRECTION.

Moist with one drop of Thy blood, my dry soul
Shall—though she now be in extreme degree
Too stony hard, and yet too fleshly—be
Freed by that drop, from being starved, hard or foul,
And life by this death abled shall control
Death, whom Thy death slew ; nor shall to me
Fear of first or last death bring misery,
If in thy life-book my name thou enroll.
Flesh in that long sleep is not putrified,
But made that there, of which, and for which it was ;
Nor can by other means be glorified.
May then sin's sleep and death soon from me pass,
That waked from both, I again risen may
Salute the last and everlasting day.

Living into the Greatest Story Ever Told

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 16:52:06 -0500

Preached by Fr. Kelly Madden on the 4th Sunday of Advent.

Running time: 22:14

Introduction to Anglican Divines 2

Sun, 11 Dec 2011 19:30:23 -0500

Two themes:

1) Via Media: The “Middle Way”

Further Resources:
On the Protestant Catholic 1
On the Protestant Catholic 2
The Strong Bones of Anglicanism

1) Lex orandi, lex credendi
~ The law of prayer is the law of belief

Further Resources
Receiving the Living Now
The Anglican Three-fold Rule

1) Via Media

George Herbert

LOVE III

Love bade me welcome, yet my soul drew back,
Guilty of dust and sin.
But quick-ey'd Love, observing me grow slack
From my first entrance in,
Drew nearer to me, sweetly questioning
If I lack'd anything.

"A guest," I answer'd, "worthy to be here";
Love said, "You shall be he."
"I, the unkind, the ungrateful? ah my dear,
I cannot look on thee."
Love took my hand and smiling did reply,
"Who made the eyes but I?"

"Truth, Lord, but I have marr'd them; let my shame
Go where it doth deserve."
"And know you not," says Love, "who bore the blame?"
"My dear, then I will serve."
"You must sit down," says Love, "and taste my meat."
So I did sit and eat.

1) Lex orandi, lex credendi
~ The law of prayer is the law of belief

From Wikipedia: Lex orandi, lex credendi (Latin loosely translatable as "the law of prayer is the law of belief") refers to the relationship between worship and belief, and is an ancient Christian principle which provided a measure for developing the ancient Christian creeds, the canon of scripture and other doctrinal matters based on the prayer texts of the Church, that is, the Church's liturgy. In the Early Church there were about 69 years of liturgical tradition before there was a creed and about 350 years before there was a biblical canon. These liturgical traditions provided the theological framework for establishing the creeds and canon.

Lex orandi, lex credendi is a fundamental character of Anglicanism. Its importance is due primarily to the fact that there is no distinctive Anglican theology as propounded in other traditions which take their name from their founding theologian (e.g., Calvinism, Lutheranism, Mennonite, or Zwinglianism). Furthermore, there is no established authority (such as the Roman Catholic magisterium) or extra-creedal summary of doctrine (such as the Westminster Confession of the Presbyterian Church).
Instead, Anglicans have what are called the Anglican Formularies to guide Anglican theology and practice. The Anglican Formularies are the Thirty-nine Articles of Religion, the 1662 Book of Common Prayer, and the Ordinal. The Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Cranmer, principal author of the prototypical 1549 BCP and the more Reformed 1552 BCP, could be said to be the first Anglican theologian. His theology is expressed in the selection, arrangement, and composition of prayers and exhortations, the selection and arrangement of daily scripture readings (the lectionary), and in the stipulation of the rubrics for permissible liturgical action and any variations in the prayers and exhortations - though, of course, his selections and arrangements were based on pre-existing continental Reformed theology. Gregory Dix, the Anglo-Catholic theologian has well said that Thomas Cranmer was a liturgical genius who helped to make the doctrine of justification by faith alone part of the common faith of England through the later 1662 Book of Common Prayer, which was faithful to the 1552 Book of Common Prayer. Elizabeth I, being Protestant, wanted to maintain the Protestant faith in England, though she did not allow the Puritans to regain control.
Given its locus in the worship of the Church, Anglican theology tends to be Augustinian and Reformed and embodies a strongly evangelistic liturgy, according to Samuel Leuenberger's book, Archbishop Thomas Cranmer's Immortal Bequest.

Book of Common Prayer
Collect of Purity:
Almighty God, unto Whom all hearts be open, all desires known, and from Whom no secrets are hid: Cleanse the thoughts of our hearts by the inspiration of Thy Holy Spirit, that we may perfectly love Thee, and worthily magnify Thy holy Name: through Christ our Lord. Amen.

He must increase, and we must decrease...

Sun, 11 Dec 2011 11:42:55 -0500

Preached by Bishop Bill Murdoch for the 3rd Sunday in Advent.

Running time: 18:39

Introduction to the Anglican Divines

Sun, 4 Dec 2011 18:27:25 -0500

Taught by John Skillen, professor of literature at Gordon College.

What and who are part of our Anglican heritage?

George Herbert
Paradise

I Bless thee, Lord, because I GROW
Among thy trees, which in a ROW
To thee both fruit and order OW.

What open force, or hidden CHARM
Can blast my fruit, or bring me HARM,
While the inclosure is thine ARM.

Inclose me still for fear I START.
Be to me rather sharp and TART,
Then let me want thy hand and ART.

When thou dost greater judgments SPARE,
And with thy knife but prune and PARE,
Ev’n fruitfull trees more fruitful ARE.

Such sharpnes shows the sweetest FREND:
Such cuttings rather heal then REND:
And such beginnings touch their END.

Lancelot Andrewes
Sermon preached to King James, Christmas Day

It is not commended to stand gazing up to heaven too long; not on Christ Himself ascending, much less on His star. For they sat not still gazing on the star. Their vidimus begat venimus; their seeing made them come, come a great journey. Venimus is soon said, but a short word; but many a wide and weary step they made before they could come to say venimus; lo, here we are come; come, and at our journey's end. To look a little on it. In this their coming we consider, 1. First, the distance of the place they came from. It was not hard by as the shepherds but a step to Bethlehem over the fields; this was riding many a hundred miles, and cost them many a day's journey. 2. Secondly, we consider the way that they came, if it be pleasant, or plain and easy; for if it be, it is so much the better. 1. This was nothing pleasant, for through deserts, all the way waste and desolate. 2. Nor secondly, easy neither; for over the rocks and crags of both Arabias, specially Petra, their journey lay. 3. Yet if safe but it was not, but exceeding dangerous, as lying through the midst of the black tents of Kedar, a nation of thieves and cut-throats; to pass over the hills of robbers, infamous then, and infamous to this day. No passing without great troop or convoy. 4. Last we consider the time of their coming, the season of the year. It was no summer progress. A cold coming they had of it at this time of the year, just the worst time of the year to take a journey, and specially a long journey. The ways deep, the weather sharp, the days short, the sun farthest off, in solsitio brumali, the very dead of winter. Venimus, we are come, if that be one, venimus, we are now come, come at this time, that sure is another.
Related:
T. S. Eliot’s poem “Journey of the Magi”
A. S. Eliot’s essay on Lancelot Andrewes
Thomas Cranmer
The First Book of Common Prayer
Although a formal break with the Papacy came about during the time of Henry VIII, the Church of England continued to use liturgies in Latin throughout his reign, just as it always had. However, once Henry died and the young Edward VI attained the throne in1547, the stage was set for some very significant changes in the religious life of the country. And so a consultation of bishops met and produced the first Book of Common Prayer. It is generally assumed that this book is largely the work of Archbishop Thomas Cranmer (pictured below), but, as no records of the development of the prayer book exist, this cannot be definitively determined.

Archbishop Cranmer in his later years.
This Book of Common Prayer was not created in a vacuum, but derives from several sources. First and foremost was the Sarum Rite, or the Latin liturgy developed in Salisbury in the thirteenth century, and widely used in England. Two other influences were a reformed Roman Breviary of the Spanish Cardinal Quiñones, and a book on doctrine and liturgy by Hermann von Wied, Archbishop of Cologne.

This prayer book was in use only for three years, until the extensive revision of 1552. However, much of its tradition and language remains in the prayer books of today, as may be seen by even a cursory examination of the text.
Related:
• Fr. Brian Morelli on Thomas Cranmer.
• More on Anglicanism and the Via media

John Donne
The Corona
Deign at my hands this crown of prayer and praise,
Weaved in my lone devout melancholy,
Thou which of good hast, yea, art treasury,
All changing unchanged Ancient of days.
But do not with a vile crown of frail bays
Reward my Muse's white sincerity ;
But what Thy thorny crown gain'd, that give me,
A crown of glory, which doth flower always.
The ends crown our works, but Thou crown'st our ends,
For at our ends begins our endless rest.
The first last end, now zealously possess'd,
With a strong sober thirst my soul attends.
'Tis time that heart and voice be lifted high ;
Salvation to all that will is nigh.

ANNUNCIATION
Salvation to all that will is nigh ;
That All, which always is all everywhere,
Which cannot sin, and yet all sins must bear,
Which cannot die, yet cannot choose but die,
Lo ! faithful Virgin, yields Himself to lie
In prison, in thy womb ; and though He there
Can take no sin, nor thou give, yet He'll wear,
Taken from thence, flesh, which death's force may try.
Ere by the spheres time was created thou
Wast in His mind, who is thy Son, and Brother ;
Whom thou conceivest, conceived ; yea, thou art now
Thy Maker's maker, and thy Father's mother,
Thou hast light in dark, and shutt'st in little room
Immensity, cloister'd in thy dear womb.

NATIVITY
Immensity, cloister'd in thy dear womb,
Now leaves His well-beloved imprisonment.
There he hath made himself to his intent
Weak enough, now into our world to come.
But O ! for thee, for Him, hath th' inn no room ?
Yet lay Him in this stall, and from th' orient,
Stars, and wise men will travel to prevent
The effects of Herod's jealous general doom.
See'st thou, my soul, with thy faith's eye, how He
Which fills all place, yet none holds Him, doth lie ?
Was not His pity towards thee wondrous high,
That would have need to be pitied by thee ?
Kiss Him, and with Him into Egypt go,
With His kind mother, who partakes thy woe.

TEMPLE.

With His kind mother, who partakes thy woe,
Joseph, turn back ; see where your child doth sit,
Blowing, yea blowing out those sparks of wit,
Which Himself on the doctors did bestow.
The Word but lately could not speak, and lo !
It suddenly speaks wonders ; whence comes it,
That all which was, and all which should be writ,
A shallow seeming child should deeply know ?
His Godhead was not soul to His manhood,
Nor had time mellow'd Him to this ripeness ;
But as for one which hath a long task, 'tis good,
With the sun to begin His business,
He in His age's morning thus began,
By miracles exceeding power of man.

CRUCIFYING.

By miracles exceeding power of man,
He faith in some, envy in some begat,
For, what weak spirits admire, ambitious hate :
In both affections many to Him ran.
But O ! the worst are most, they will and can,
Alas ! and do, unto th' Immaculate,
Whose creature Fate is, now prescribe a fate,
Measuring self-life's infinity to span,
Nay to an inch. Lo ! where condemned He
Bears His own cross, with pain, yet by and by
When it bears him, He must bear more and die.
Now Thou art lifted up, draw me to Thee,
And at Thy death giving such liberal dole,
Moist with one drop of Thy blood my dry soul.

RESURRECTION.

Moist with one drop of Thy blood, my dry soul
Shall—though she now be in extreme degree
Too stony hard, and yet too fleshly—be
Freed by that drop, from being starved, hard or foul,
And life by this death abled shall control
Death, whom Thy death slew ; nor shall to me
Fear of first or last death bring misery,
If in thy life-book my name thou enroll.
Flesh in that long sleep is not putrified,
But made that there, of which, and for which it was ;
Nor can by other means be glorified.
May then sin's sleep and death soon from me pass,
That waked from both, I again risen may
Salute the last and everlasting day.

ASCENSION.

Salute the last and everlasting day,
Joy at th' uprising of this Sun, and Son,
Ye whose true tears, or tribulation
Have purely wash'd, or burnt your drossy clay.
Behold, the Highest, parting hence away,
Lightens the dark clouds, which He treads upon ;
Nor doth He by ascending show alone,
But first He, and He first enters the way.
O strong Ram, which hast batter'd heaven for me !
Mild Lamb, which with Thy Blood hast mark'd the path !
Bright Torch, which shinest, that I the way may see !
O, with Thy own Blood quench Thy own just wrath ;
And if Thy Holy Spirit my Muse did raise,
Deign at my hands this crown of prayer and praise.

Poems from George Herbert

Preparing for God in Crisis

Sun, 4 Dec 2011 11:32:04 -0500

Preached by Fr. Michael Morse.

“The Beginning of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.”

Running time: 22:13

Judgment and Accountability on the Way to Christmas

Sun, 27 Nov 2011 11:35:43 -0500

Preached by Bishop Bill Murdoch.

The King of kings is here!

Sun, 20 Nov 2011 11:29:45 -0500

Preached by Fr. Michael Morse.

Running time: 20:12

To whom much is given, much will be expected

Sun, 13 Nov 2011 11:40:20 -0500

Preached by Bishop Bill Murdoch.

Running Time: 21:18

The Communion of Saints

Sun, 6 Nov 2011 11:43:23 -0500

Preached by Bishop Bill Murdoch on the Feast of All Saints.

Running time: 25:26

How to Be Good

Sun, 30 Oct 2011 11:45:50 -0400

Preached Susan Skillen, the Canon of Spiritual Formation for the Anglican Diocese in New England.

Meditation on the Greatest Commandment

Sun, 23 Oct 2011 11:41:20 -0400

Preached by Fr. Michael Morse.

Forgive Me, God, for Making You Small

Sun, 16 Oct 2011 11:44:14 -0400

Preached by Fr. Michael Morse.

Running time: 27:51

People are Invited, Chosen, and Clothed

Sun, 9 Oct 2011 11:39:38 -0400

Preached by Bishop Bill Murdoch.

Running time: 22:45

What is our Purpose? Becoming a Fruitful People of God

Sun, 2 Oct 2011 11:40:13 -0400

Preached by Fr. Michael Morse.

Running time: 22:39

On the Forgiveness and Mercy of God

Sun, 25 Sep 2011 11:34:29 -0400

Preached by Deacon Martha Learned.

Running time: 22:31

Gratitude vs. Grumbling-It Doesn't Matter When You Enter the Vineyard

Sun, 18 Sep 2011 11:59:21 -0400

Preached by The Venerable Archdeacon William Beasley.

Running time: 32:32

Sermon from the Bishop 9/11

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 11:08:54 -0400

Preached by Bishop Bill Murdoch.

Running Time: 26:42

It's All About Jesus!

Sun, 21 Aug 2011 11:08:53 -0400

Preached by Fr. Kelly Madden.

Running Time: 28:11

Proclaim the Faith in Prayer!

Sun, 14 Aug 2011 11:42:09 -0400

Preached by Bishop Bill Murdoch.

Running Time: 25:35

Get Out of the Boat and Believe

Sun, 7 Aug 2011 11:20:46 -0400

Preached by Piper Runion Bareford.

Running time: 17:21

Nothing Separates Us from the Love of Christ

Sun, 31 Jul 2011 10:50:06 -0400

Preached by Bishop Bill Murdoch.

Running time: 27:26

Why the Church Pursues Justice

Sun, 24 Jul 2011 10:46:04 -0400

Preached by Fr. Michael Morse.

Fourth Sunday After Pentecost

Sun, 10 Jul 2011 10:02:50 -0400

Preached by the Rev. Susan Skillen, Canon of Spiritual Formation for the Anglican Diocese in North America (ACNA).

Jesus Takes Our Burdens If We Take On His

Sun, 3 Jul 2011 09:48:34 -0400

Preached by Fr. Michael Morse.

Who I am in Christ

Sun, 26 Jun 2011 10:33:31 -0400

Preached by Fr. Kelly Madden. Fr. Kelly reminds us that in Christ we are accepted!

Satan’s Lie: God’s Truth

-You are a sinner because you sin -You are a saint (declared righteous by God
-Your identity flows from what you have done -Your identity comes from what God has done for you
-Your identity comes from what people say about you -Your identity comes from what God says about you
-Your behavior tells you what to believe about yourself -Your belief about yourself determines your behavior

FurtherResources provided by Fr. Kelly:

Freedom of Christ Ministries

June 19th Bp. Bill

Sun, 19 Jun 2011 09:36:24 -0400

Preached by Bishop Bill Murdoch.

Day of Pentecost

Sun, 12 Jun 2011 21:38:58 -0400

Preached by Fr. Michael Morse.

Children's Sermon-Jesus Wins!

Sun, 5 Jun 2011 12:37:10 -0400

Preached by Fr. Brian Morelli to the children of All Saints.

Parking Spaces and Red Ferraris-How to Ask God for Help in Prayer

Sun, 29 May 2011 12:00:09 -0400

Preached by Fr. Michael Morse.

Further Resource:

Meditations on the Lord’s Prayer
By Douglas Dobbins

What is a Priest?

Sun, 22 May 2011 12:25:17 -0400

Preached by Bishop Bill Murdoch, focusing on the doctrine of the priesthood of all believers.

The Ordination of Brian Morelli, Jordan Easley, and John Wagner

Sat, 21 May 2011 22:16:30 -0400

The New Life in Jesus

Sun, 15 May 2011 12:11:16 -0400

Preached by Fr. Michael Morse.

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The Road to Emmaus

Sun, 8 May 2011 12:21:59 -0400

Preached by The Rev. Susan Skillen, Canon of Spiritual Formation.

The Peace of Jesus

Sun, 1 May 2011 11:58:29 -0400

Receive the peace of the Risen Lord Jesus!

Preached by Fr. Michael Morse.

Easter

Sun, 24 Apr 2011 06:51:20 -0400

Preached by Bishop Bill Murdoch.

Holy Saturday

Sat, 23 Apr 2011 07:23:04 -0400

Preached by Fr. Michael Morse.

Good Friday

Fri, 22 Apr 2011 19:32:43 -0400

A reading of the Passion, and a homily from Fr. Kelly Madden.

Maundy Thursday

Thu, 21 Apr 2011 22:11:02 -0400

Preached by Fr. Michael Morse.