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I hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving, and that you were able to connect with those you love, even if you could not be with them this year. 
 
Thanksgiving in the midst of the events of 2020 has taught me something I might not otherwise have learned … even when I am surrounded by tragic events, high anxiety, and a holy anger for justice … I can find reason to give thanks.  One … and only one of many reasons to give thanks is that 2020 has reminded me of a way of living where I am constantly aware of my own vulnerability, and I am constantly aware of the vulnerability of those around me.  It has opened a door to seeing other people through a particular lens … a compassionate lens.  I give thanks for that insight … one that I hope I don’t forget as things begin to go back to what we used to call “normal.”

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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.