Sermons

The Second Sunday of Advent, The Holy Eucharist, by the Reverend Dr. Matthew Daniel Jacobson

My niece Emily is eight years old and perhaps her greatest passion, at this point in her young life, is gymnastics. She’s been at it for several years now and has been getting better and better, steadily progressing, day-by-day, week-by-week, as she puts more and more time in at the gym. And, then, this past spring she made it all the way to the States in New Jersey, competing against girls who, for the most part, were older than her. She was on this steady trajectory forward until she had a bit of a setback.
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