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THIS IS THE SERMON I DID NOT PREACH!
 
Well, COVID19 has come home.  A member of the congregation, with whom a number of people have had contact, woke up yesterday with a fever, and they chose to be test for COVID19.  We do not know if anyone is infected … we are waiting for test results.  Again … let me be clear … we do not know if anyone is infected … we are waiting for test results.  However, out of an abundance of caution, we are exercising extreme social distance … essentially isolation.  We do not have any music this morning.  There are no singers, no lector, no one at the controls of our camera for the live-streaming … and no Pastor Deena at the altar with me.  I asked to stay home this morning.

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Sermon by The Rev. Deena M. Galantowicz

I think most of you know the old cowboy song … ”Oh give me a home where the buffalo roam , and the deer and the antelope play… where seldom is heard a discouraging word, and the skies are not cloudy all day.” Well,
One of my all- time favorite cartoons shows a scene from the Western prairie.   A large herd of buffalo stand on one side.  A single buffalo stands all alone, far away, on the other side.  One buffalo in the herd motions toward the single buffalo and says to another buffalo in the herd, “What’s the deal with him?”  The other buffalo replies, “Oh he just heard a discouraging word.” 

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I want to begin with a story I may have used before. It is a story that Caren has in her book, Healing Words.
 
Caren and I were married on September 1, 1990. I was the new Rector of St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Toledo, Ohio … and Caren was very new to the culture of the Episcopal Church. Later in that fall of 1990 the regional Episcopal Church Women … ECW … had a luncheon with the bishop in attendance and, of course, they invited the new wife of the new rector to join them.

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This is the Second Sunday of the season after the Feast of Pentecost.  This season of Pentecost runs from now until the last Sunday in November which begins Advent.  Roman Catholics call this season “Ordinary Time” … “ordinary” as in ordered, but also as “normal.”
 
There is nothing “ordinary” or “normal” about the time in which we are living.  A global pandemic … massive unemployment and economic distress … and the protests of racial inequality and injustice following the killing of George Floyd.

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Sermon by The Rev. Deena M. Galantowicz
I would like to begin this morning by acknowledging so much that I know is on the hearts and minds of this St. Cyprian’s Community of Faith.  I know from talking with several of you, and I know from my own thoughts and those shared with me by our adult children, that the ensuing manifestation of our fractured country after the killing of George Floyd  leaves us stunned, confused, and totally, totally not knowing what to do to help, trying to know what we should be doing to help make a difference, to aid in making it reality that justice is for ALL in America.  So I would like to share some thoughts about all of that before moving on to the celebration of this Trinity Sunday, the day the church celebrates God made known to us in three different ways.