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Sunday, May 29, 2016

Sermon for Sunday, May 29, 2016 Grace, Goochland, Luke 7:1-10 “Amazed”

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Welcome to this season of change! I imagine it is strange not having Rhonda here up front – it will take some getting used to. I’m Mary Tho...
Sunday, May 22, 2016

Sermon for Trinity Sunday May 22, 2016 "Inhabited"

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Friends, it is Trinity Sunday, and you know what that means – your preacher has sweated bullets over what can be one of the most worrisome ...
Tuesday, May 17, 2016

Sermon for Tuesday, May 17th Evening Vespers/ Lutheran-Episcopal Conference ShrineMont/ Ezekiel 11:14-25

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Ah Ezekiel! My favorite Old Testament heretic! Heretic, you say? A chosen speaker of God’s word? A part of the canon of the Hebrew Bible?...
Sunday, May 08, 2016

Sermon for Sunday, May 8, 2016 St John the Baptist, Ivy, John 17: 20 -26 “Mothering God”

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Good morning! I am Mary Thorpe, Director of Transition Ministry for the Diocese of Virginia, and I am delighted to be here with you on th...
Sunday, May 01, 2016

Sermon for Sunday, May 1, 2016 St Paul’s King George, John 14:23-29 “Because I Said So”

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When my children were little – I raised five children, so that seemed like a very long season indeed – we had a system of sharing the c...
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Sunday, April 03, 2016

Sermon for Sunday, April 3, 2016 Acts 5:27-32; John 20-19-21 Holy Comforter, Richmond “Stand-Up Guys”

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We make much of the fact that the disciples of Jesus – with the exception of the females, and in some tellings of the story, the Beloved Di...
Sunday, March 27, 2016

Easter Vigil Sermon 2016 – Romans 6:1-11 “Pulled Into New Life”

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The child was not yet five. She stood at the water’s edge, looking at the gently rolling waves as they lapped the shore. Where we...
Monday, February 08, 2016

Sermon for February 7, 2016 St Andrew’s Richmond Luke 9: 28-43A “After the Party”

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It was a cold February afternoon – a Super Bowl Sunday, to be exact - just a few months after the priest had presided at the wedding of a...
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mibi52/ The Rev. Dr. Mary Brennan Thorpe
Richmond, VA, United States
A second (actually fifth) career Episcopal priest, I am serving as Director of Transition Ministry in the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia. I help parishes find priests and priests find new calls.How did a RC convent girl with a Teamster shop-steward dad end up here? Married to Pastoral Husband, AKA PH, an ordained minister and full-time pastoral counselor. Three kids from the prior marriage: Strong Opinions, artistic 30 y.o. girl trying on the world for size, Stonemason, 32 y.o. guy working with his hands in the North Country, Litigator, highly verbal 34 y.o. with aspirations to be the next Michael Moore. Two stepsons, 4 step grandkids, a cat. Way too many books.Well, there are never too many books...
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