Homilies Anno Domini 2026
Devotionals & Weekday Meditations
A growing archive of homilies preached on the Sundays and feasts of the 1928 Book of Common Prayer, in the Caroline tradition of harmonic exposition — Collect, Epistle, and Gospel read together as one voice.
Sunday, May 24, 2026
Whitsunday — The Feast of Pentecost
Epistle: Acts ii. 1 · Gospel: St. John xiv. 15 · Wisdom i. 1–7
A meditation upon the eternal indwelling of the Holy Ghost — the Spirit who filleth the world, and who is given at Pentecost not as a stranger arriving but as the One who was always there.
Sunday, May 17, 2026
Sunday after Ascension Day — The Sunday of Expectation — at the Eucharist
Collect: O God, the King of glory · Epistle: 1 Peter 4 : 7–11 · Gospel: John 15 : 26 – 16 : 4a
The eight-day vigil between the Ascension and the Pentecost: who the Comforter is, the relation of the renewal of baptismal vows to the once-only Sacrament of Confirmation, and the keeping of the Whitsuntide cycle — the Vigil, the Day, the Octave, and the Ember Days within it.
Sunday, May 10, 2026
Fifth Sunday after Easter — Rogation Sunday — at the Eucharist
Collect: O Lord, from whom all good things do come · Epistle: James 1 : 22–27 · Gospel: John 16 : 23–33
The Rogation week of asking, and the staggering line at the heart of the Gospel: the Father himself loveth you. Inspiration into performance, hearer into doer, stranger into son.
Sunday, May 3, 2026
The Fourth Sunday after Easter — at the Eucharist
Collect: O Almighty God, who alone canst order the unruly wills · Epistle: St. James i. 17
The Collect for this Sunday names something every Christian eventually meets: a world of sundry and manifold changes, and the one Giver from whom every good and perfect gift comes down unchanging.
Sunday, April 26, 2026
Third Sunday after Easter — at the Eucharist
Collect: Almighty God, who shewest to them that be in error · Epistle: 1 Peter 2 : 11–17 · Gospel: John 16 : 16–22
How sorrow is turned to joy in the little while between Christ's ascension and his return, with the disciples in the upper room and the pilgrim Church on her road home.
Sunday, April 19, 2026
Second Sunday after Easter — Good Shepherd Sunday — at the Eucharist
Collect: Almighty God, who hast given thine only Son · Epistle: 1 Peter 2 : 19–25 · Gospel: John 10 : 11–16
The double gift of the Shepherd — sacrifice for sin and example of godly life — and the voice that calls his own sheep by name.
Sunday, July 26, 2026
Eighth Sunday after Trinity — at Morning Prayer and the Eucharist
Collect: O God, whose never-failing providence · Epistle: Romans 8 : 12–17 · Gospel: Matthew 7 : 15–21
Paul's Spirit of adoption and Christ's warning against false prophets as the same test under two names: how the true is told from the counterfeit not by its clothing or its words, but by its fruit — with the image of currency examiners trained only on the genuine article.
Sunday, July 19, 2026
Seventh Sunday after Trinity — at Morning Prayer and the Eucharist
Lessons: Hosea 14 · Romans 6 : 12–18 · Collect: Lord of all power and might, who art the author and giver of all good things · Epistle: Romans 6 : 19–23 · Gospel: Mark 8 : 1–9
On the Collect's plea to graft in our hearts the love of God's Name, and the other half of the husbandry Scripture asks for — the pruning of the overgrown and unproductive, in Christ's word to the true vine and Hosea's promise to heal a backsliding people until the branches spread again. With a hillside fire on the Columbia and the rainbow sign given to Noah, that the same God who grafts, prunes, and keeps is not taken by surprise by the fire next time, whether on a hillside or in a life.
Sunday, July 12, 2026
Sixth Sunday after Trinity — at Morning Prayer
Collect: O God, who hast prepared for those who love thee such good things · Epistle: Romans 6 : 3–11 · Gospel: Matthew 5 : 20–26
David's refusal to slay Shimei at the Jordan, and Christ's command to love the enemy that David's mercy only began: how baptism into Christ's death frees us from the ledger of what is owed, so that mercy and truth — as the Psalmist sings — are met together.
Sunday, July 5, 2026
Fifth Sunday after Trinity — at Morning Prayer
Collect: Grant, O Lord, that the course of this world may be so peaceably ordered · Epistle: 1 Peter 3 : 8–15 · Gospel: Luke 5 : 1–11
The Miraculous Draught of Fishes as the pattern of Christian vocation: Simon's nevertheless at thy word — spoken across the threshold of exhausted failure — and the man who confesses his unworthiness at Christ's feet becoming the man Christ commissions to catch men.
Saturday, July 4, 2026
The Commemoration of American Independence — A Votive Mass — at the Eucharist
Collect: O Eternal God, through whose mighty power our fathers won their liberties of old · Lessons: Deuteronomy 10 : 17–21 · Saint Matthew 5 : 43–48
On the two conditions the collect lays upon a liberty received as gift: righteousness toward the fatherless, the widow, and the stranger, and peace that loves even the enemy — kept, this two hundred and fiftieth year, as a votive offering rather than a national self-congratulation.
Sunday, June 28, 2026
Fourth Sunday after Trinity — Eve of Saint Peter's Day — at Morning Prayer
Collect: O God, the protector of all that trust in thee · Epistle: Romans 8 : 18–23 · Gospel: Luke 6 : 36–42
The pilgrim's vocation — to pass through things temporal without losing things eternal — and Saint Peter as the apostolic pattern of that passage: the man who could not be silenced because he could not forget what he had seen and heard.
Saturday, June 28, 2026
The Eve of Saint Peter the Apostle — at Morning Prayer and the Eucharist
Lessons: Acts 12 : 1–11 · Saint Matthew 16 : 13–19
On the Confession at Caesarea Philippi, the Petros/petra distinction, and the Anglican doctrine of the keys: the Church built not on one man’s person, but on the apostolic faith — and the real portrait of Peter: not infallibility, but restoration.
Sunday, June 21, 2026
The Third Sunday after Trinity — at the Eucharist
Epistle: 1 St. Peter v. 6–11 · Gospel: St. Luke xv
On the hearty desire to pray, and the God who seeks — the woman who lights a candle and sweeps the house until she find the piece she had lost.
Sunday, June 21, 2026
The Third Sunday after Trinity — at Morning Prayer
First Lesson: Proverbs xvi. 18–24, 32 · Second Lesson: Philippians · Gospel: St. Luke viii. 4–15
On the covenant of Abraham, the faithful remnant, and the word that cannot fail — everything in the day's lessons hangs from that one hook.
Sunday, June 7, 2026
The First Sunday after Trinity — at the Eucharist
Epistle: 1 St. John iv. 7–21 · Gospel: St. Luke xvi. 19–31
The Epistle gives us the shortest creed in all of Scripture — God is love — and the Gospel sets beside it the most uncomfortable parable our Lord ever told: Dives, and Lazarus at the gate.
Sunday, June 7, 2026
The First Sunday after Trinity — at Morning Prayer
Psalm lxxiii · First Lesson: Jeremiah xxiii. 23–32 · Second Lesson: St. Matthew
On the lessons for the First Sunday after Trinity: the word that is like a fire and like a hammer, and the house that stands because it was built upon the rock.
Sunday, May 31, 2026
Trinity Sunday — at the Eucharist
Gospel: St. John iii. 1–15
The first man to hear the doctrine of the Trinity expounded is Nicodemus, and he comes by night — which is, I think, exactly right for a day when most of us would rather not be put on the spot.
Sunday, May 31, 2026
Trinity Sunday — at Morning Prayer
First Lesson: Isaiah vi · Second Lesson: 1 St. Peter i. 1–12
The glory upon the throne has a Name at last: Father, Son, and Holy Ghost — and Saint Peter quietly binds the vision of Isaiah to the life of the baptised.