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Dec 2018

Fr Michael Rasicci’s homily for the First Sunday in Advent, 12/02/2018, As we prepare for the anniversary of Christ’s first coming, we are preparing for His Second Coming. Christ is with us now, every day, by virtue of our baptism and the Holy Spirit. Christ promised that, when two or three are gathered in His name, He will be with them. Every Sunday, when we gather to worship, Christ is with us. In addition to being with us and part of us, He is with us in the form of His Body......

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05
Nov 2018

Fr Michael Rasicci’s homily for All Saints Sunday, the 24th Sunday after Pentecost, 11/04/2018.  In the Episcopal Church, we celebrate All Saints on November 1st and on the Sunday closest to November 1st. I have celebrated this service four times this year. I am glad we honor our departed on this date because the reading from this year seem to focus more on death than on honoring the departed. What or who do we honor on this date? We honor Holiness. For a lot of us, if we think about ourselves, we......

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Oct 2018

Extract from Fr Mike’s Homily regarding Stewardship 2018-2019–We need to determine what we can contribute to the growth of the Kingdom of God. (From his homily on 09/30/2018-“Do The Work We Have Been Called To Do”)  Fr Mike speaks to data collected by the Episcopal Church regarding size of congregations and asks us to consider what we can contribute to the growth of the Kingdom of God.   Here is a draft of a comprehensive presentation about Calvary we will be working from to create the materials for the 2018-19 Stewardship Campaign.......

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30
Sep 2018

Audio file for Fr Mike’s homily for the 19th Sunday after Pentecost–09/30/2018. File made at the 10:15AM Service. For an almost complete transcript, view the sermon with the same date and title. You can download this as an M4A file or as an MP3 file. Do-the-Work-We-Have-Been-Given-to-Do-M4A Do-the-Work-We-Have-Been-Given-to-Do-MP3 Fr Michael Rasicci’s homily for the 19th Sunday after Pentecost, 09/30/2018. Every year the national office of the Episcopal Church publishes statistics. In 2017, the Average Sunday Attendance at Episcopal parishes in the USA was 54. Over the past several years, this number has been......

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31
Aug 2018

The first annual Batavia Historic Church Walk will be held on Sunday, September 9th, 2018, from 1 to 4 PM  (Tickets $15 to benefit the renovation of the Batavia Railroad Museum). Calvary Episcopal Church, in Batavia, IL, is one of the four churches featured on the walk.  What follows is the Facebook Post to be shared with docents (people leading the tour for Calvary). We had a very successful first annual Batavia Historic Church Walk.  About 100 visitors came through Calvary Episcopal Church–the sanctuary and the parish hall and our “new wing”......

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06
Feb 2018

Calvary’s guest, The Reverend Cannon Howard K. Williams, D Min, would like to share some of the Food for the Poor videos from YouTube with us during his visit.  Links to these videos can be found on this post.  Please share this post with your friends. Contact Information for Food for the Poor, Inc. 6401 Lyons Rd, Coconut Creek, FL 33073 954-427-2222 www.FoodForThePoor.org Online Donations–Send “Kindness” text message to 51555       Rev Cannon Howard K. Williams’ 8:00 AM homily on World Mission Sunday, 02/11/2018.  Visit our Online Education website, https://edu.calvaryepiscopalbatavia.church to see......

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