St Pauls on the Hill Ossining NY in Westchester

Episcopal Church in the Anglican Communion located in Ossining NY in Westchester County

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2 Pentecost (Proper 7)

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June 23, 2019, Charles D. Mayer I have always found this particular Sunday in the church year to be a very interesting one.  We have just concluded the six months of the year that are devoted to festivals:  Advent, Christmas, Epiphany, Lent, Easter, and Pentecost.  And now we have entered the six months of Ordinary Time, devoted not to the high points of the story of Jesus and … [Read more...]

Summer Music Camp

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ST PAUL'S YOUTH MUSIC CAMP BEGINS, July 8, 2019Our program provides small group music lessons for children (between the ages of 4 and 17) in:  SINGING, KEYBOARD, DRUMS, DANCE, and GUITAR. The program serves young people from the community as a whole and does not include religious content. COST: $50 per family per week; $100 for 2 weeks. SCHEDULE: July 8 – 19, Monday-Friday, 6 PM to 8 PM. … [Read more...]

The Holy Spirit will teach you everything

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June 9, 2019, Day of Pentecost, Charles D. Mayer “But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you everything, and remind you of all I have said to you” (John 14:26).  In John’s Gospel, Jesus promises the Advocate – or Paraclete – to the disciples as the one who will continue to teach and guide them after Jesus returns to the Father (Jewish Annotated … [Read more...]

Strategic Visioning

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Please join us on May 19th (and in June and October.) Come with your thoughts, dreams and aspirational goals for this journey.*MAY 19: Celebrating and Learning From Our History*JUNE 30: Understanding Who We Are Now*OCTOBER* 20 or 27 (TBD): Discerning Who, Where, And How God Is Calling Us To Be In The Next 3 Years Trinity and St. Paul's on the Hill have created a Strategic Visioning Team to … [Read more...]

Sixth Sunday of Easter

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Charles D. Mayer, May 26, 2019 This morning’s Gospel is such a rich and fascinating one. Some of you were present for last Sunday’s visioning meeting, at which our facilitator Bill Cruse invited us to be in dialogue with this text as a part of exploring the histories of our two Ossining Episcopal parishes. Bill intended that work to set the stage for today’s reading of this same Gospel. So … [Read more...]

Mo. Cooper’s Good Friday Sermon

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You know - sometimes people ask why in Holy Week is the tone of our reflection so unrelentingly gloomy? Why does hope seem so scarce? Why don’t we relieve or punctuate the focus on loss with a bit more of the hope that we know waits for us at Easter?  In my experience, people who ask this are not stupid people - nor are they insensitive – neither are they helpless innocents who have never … [Read more...]