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This is a stewardship sermon.  However, it is not a sermon about making a financial pledge to St. Cyprian’s … this is about a different kind of stewardship.  This is about stewardship of passive resistance … of civil disobedience.  It is about how this story from two thousand years ago is true in the world around us today.

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As we all know, it took four days to get the ballots counted, but Joe Biden has won the election and will become the 46th President on the United States.  I believe we are at a new beginning in our life in this nation.  I believe this not just about politics.  This new beginning is not simply a restatement of old progressive good intentions.  I believe it is rather a moment when we must consider that God is doing a new thing.  If that is the case, then the old things we may cherish must be relinquished.  The “old things” to be given up are whatever it is that resists the purposes of God for our life in the world today.  

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Sermon by The Rev. Deena M. Galantowicz
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All Saints Sunday is one of THE 4 biggest days of the Church Year and yet, I think that is often not realized.  The other 3 are Christmas & Easter, of course, & the 4th is Pentecost. 
 
We have some POWERFUL Scripture readings this morning as we celebrate All Saints Day.  The first reading is familiar to many of us because it is often read at funerals, and then, of course, the Gospel has the very familiar, but very challenging Beatitudes.

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​In our lectionary reading from Matthew’s Gospel this morning, the Pharisees appoint a lawyer to ask Jesus yet another “test” question: “Which commandment in the law is the greatest?”  Jesus answers without a moment’s hesitation:
 
“‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all our mind.’  This is the greatest and first commandment.  And a second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’”