by Mario Baldessari | Sermons
Texts: Luke 1: 46-55; Matthew 11: 7-19; 1 Corinthians 1: 18-25 The Feast of Fools Some months ago, I came across a theological treatise written in the early 20th century, an attempt to diagnose the ills then plaguing Europe in particular, along with...
by Mario Baldessari | Sermons
Texts: Matthew 6: 7-15; James 1: 1-4 I Go On: The Lord’s Prayer Revisited In the middle of the sermon there is a wonderful choral selection by Brian Cheney, our Senior Choir Tenor section leader. If I were a professor of homiletics, a teacher of the art of...
by Mario Baldessari | Sermons
Texts: Jeremiah 12: 1-5; I Corinthians 9: 24-25; I Corinthians 13: 4-7 Running with the Horses This is a sermon about endurance. This is a sermon about perseverance, about what it means to keep going when it feels like you can’t take another step. This is a sermon...
by Mario Baldessari | Sermons
John 6:1-14 Belonging Creates and Undoes Us Both: Three Stories I brought three sacred stories with me today. Each holds a moment of communion and belonging, hope and possibility. Maybe these will fill something in you, and in turn, may the stories of your life,...
by Mario Baldessari | Sermons
Texts: Matthew 5: 13-16; Romans 13: 11-14 The Ears of the Heart: Benedictine Wisdom for a World in Flux Here’s a short passage from a book entitled After Virtue, by Alisdair MacIntyre, a study of philosophical ethics that has had an outsized...