St Pauls on the Hill Ossining NY in Westchester

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

Thoughts of Reverend J Cooper Conway

Pentecost, Sunday May 31, 2020

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The Rev. J. Cooper Conway, the Day of Pentecost, Morning Prayer, SUNDAY, May 31, 2020, with music by Christopher Fasulo and Sally Evans; From Mo. Cooper's sermon responding to the killing of George Floyd by police: "I know what the world has done to my brother and how narrowly he has survived it and I know, which is much worse, and this is the crime of which I accuse my country and my … [Read more...]

Is God’s Own Creation beyond Capacity?

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As I began to think about this week’s sermon – against the backdrop of the Corona Virus pandemic, and my own family’s experience of voluntary self-quarantine – I found that my thoughts turned to childhood memories of time spent in the outdoors.  The memories were primarily of two important summer places.  The first was the state park just a short bicycle ride from my boyhood home.  … [Read more...]

Presentation of the Lord

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February 2, 2020, Charles D. Mayer Looking back over the past few years, during which I have been here at St. Paul’s on the first Sundays in February, I notice that we have not observed the feast of the Presentation of the Lord on those first Sundays (it is optional, but not required, if the Feast does not fall on a Sunday).  So, it is a special thing that it falls on a Sunday this … [Read more...]

Look! Here Is the Lamb of God

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January 19, 2020, 2 Epiphany, Charles D. Mayer Throughout the three-year cycle of lectionary readings, each of which is built around one of the Synoptic Gospels, there are Sundays that depart from the Synoptic Gospel – this year it is Matthew – and bring us a text from the Gospel of John.  So, we never get a chance to follow John through week after week for an entire year.  I … [Read more...]

Bring Us Together in Peace and Love

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Advent 3A 2019 Arthur Hultgren of the Lather Seminary once said “these days we live in a world where people are divided into two categories” [those who are valued and those who are not valued] “but Advent introduces an opening to New Ways of Thinking.” And at no time is that more true than on the 3rd Sunday of Advent when we both recite the Magnificat (Mary’s Prayer) and hear today’s … [Read more...]

Who Is Our Joseph?

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Bethlehem in Germany,Glitter on the sloping roofs, Panels of nativityOpen paper scenes where doorsOpen into other scenes. Leaning from the cliff of heaven,Indicating whom he weeps for.Joseph lifts his lamp aboveThe infant, like a candle crown.Let my fingers touch the silenceWhere the infant’s father cries.Gjertrude Schnackenberg, Advent Calendar Who is our Joseph, really? He is a figure … [Read more...]

Keep a Balance

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“The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise [one.]" Euripides As we enter November, Fall draws to a close. This has been a particularly busy season. The churches have (together and individually) restarted choir, reopened the Lantern shop, launched Youth Music Program, … [Read more...]

This World of God’s Is Filled with Hope

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Photo by Marc-Olivier Jodoin on Unsplash You may write me down in history, with your bitter, twisted lies. You may trod me in the very dirt but still like dust, I rise. --Maya Angelou It is autumn, a season of real, visible, and melancholy change. As I consider this season, I feel called to remember also that this world of God’s is filled with hope. In the Letter to the Romans, … [Read more...]