Trinity Episcopal Southport CT Sermons

This is the sermon for Sunday, 7/30/23, recorded at Trinity Episcopal Church in Southport, Connecticut.  Information about Trinity can be found at trinitysouthport.org.

This is the sermon for Sunday, 7/23/23, recorded at Trinity Episcopal Church in Southport, Connecticut.  Information about Trinity can be found at trinitysouthport.org.

This is the sermon for Sunday, 7/16/23, recorded at Trinity Episcopal Church in Southport, Connecticut.  Information about Trinity can be found at trinitysouthport.org.

This is the sermon for Sunday, 7/9/23, recorded at Trinity Episcopal Church in Southport, Connecticut.  Information about Trinity can be found at trinitysouthport.org.

This is the sermon for Sunday, 7/2/23, recorded at Trinity Episcopal Church in Southport, Connecticut.  Information about Trinity can be found at trinitysouthport.org.

This is the sermon for Sunday, 6/25/23, recorded at Trinity Episcopal Church in Southport, Connecticut.  Information about Trinity can be found at trinitysouthport.org.

This is the sermon for Sunday, 6/18/23, recorded at Trinity Episcopal Church in Southport, Connecticut.  Information about Trinity can be found at trinitysouthport.org.

This is the sermon for Sunday, 1/8/23, recorded at Trinity Episcopal Church in Southport, Connecticut, the Rev. Peggy Hodgkins, Rector.  Information about Trinity can be found at trinitysouthport.org.

This is the sermon for New Years Day, 1/1/23, recorded at Trinity Episcopal Church in Southport, Connecticut, the Rev. Peggy Hodgkins, Rector.  Information about Trinity can be found at trinitysouthport.org.

This is the sermon for Christmas Day, 12/25/22, recorded at Trinity Episcopal Church in Southport, Connecticut, the Rev. Peggy Hodgkins, Rector.  Information about Trinity can be found at trinitysouthport.org.

This is the sermon for Christmas Eve, 12/24/22, recorded at Trinity Episcopal Church in Southport, Connecticut, the Rev. Peggy Hodgkins, Rector.  Information about Trinity can be found at trinitysouthport.org.

This is the sermon for Sunday, 12/18/22, recorded at Trinity Episcopal Church in Southport, Connecticut, the Rev. Peggy Hodgkins, Rector.  Information about Trinity can be found at trinitysouthport.org.

This is the sermon for Sunday, 12/11/22, recorded at Trinity Episcopal Church in Southport, Connecticut, the Rev. Peggy Hodgkins, Rector.  Information about Trinity can be found at trinitysouthport.org.

This is the sermon for Sunday, 12/4/22, recorded at Trinity Episcopal Church in Southport, Connecticut, the Rev. Peggy Hodgkins, Rector.  Information about Trinity can be found at trinitysouthport.org.

This is the sermon for Sunday, 11/27/22, recorded at Trinity Episcopal Church in Southport, Connecticut, the Rev. Peggy Hodgkins, Rector.  Information about Trinity can be found at trinitysouthport.org.

This is the sermon for Sunday, 11/20/22, recorded at Trinity Episcopal Church in Southport, Connecticut, the Rev. Peggy Hodgkins, Rector.  Information about Trinity can be found at trinitysouthport.org.

This is the sermon for Sunday, 11/13/22, recorded at Trinity Episcopal Church in Southport, Connecticut, the Rev. Peggy Hodgkins, Rector.  Information about Trinity can be found at trinitysouthport.org.

This is the sermon for the Evensong Service on Sunday, 11/6/22, recorded at Trinity Episcopal Church in Southport, Connecticut, the Rev. Peggy Hodgkins, Rector.  Information about Trinity can be found at trinitysouthport.org.

This is the sermon for Sunday, 11/6/22, recorded at Trinity Episcopal Church in Southport, Connecticut, the Rev. Peggy Hodgkins, Rector.  Information about Trinity can be found at trinitysouthport.org.

This is the sermon for Sunday, 10/30/22, recorded at Trinity Episcopal Church in Southport, Connecticut, the Rev. Peggy Hodgkins, Rector.  Information about Trinity can be found at trinitysouthport.org.

This is the sermon for Sunday, 10/23/22, recorded at Trinity Episcopal Church in Southport, Connecticut, the Rev. Peggy Hodgkins, Rector.  Information about Trinity can be found at trinitysouthport.org.

This is the sermon for Sunday, 10/16/22, recorded at Trinity Episcopal Church in Southport, Connecticut, the Rev. Peggy Hodgkins, Rector.  Information about Trinity can be found at trinitysouthport.org.

This is the sermon for Sunday, 10/2/22, recorded at Trinity Episcopal Church in Southport, Connecticut, the Rev. Peggy Hodgkins, Rector.  Information about Trinity can be found at trinitysouthport.org.The Gospel for today is Luke 17:5-10:The apostles said to the Lord, "Increase our faith!" The Lord replied, "If you had faith the size of a mustard seed, you could say to this mulberry tree, `Be uprooted and planted in the sea,' and it would obey you."Who among you would say to your slave who has just come in from plowing or tending sheep in the field, `Come here at once and take your place at the table'? Would you not rather say to him, `Prepare supper for me, put on your apron and serve me while I eat and drink; later you may eat and drink'? Do you thank the slave for doing what was commanded? So you also, when you have done all that you were ordered to do, say, `We are worthless slaves; we have done only what we ought to have done!'"

This is the sermon for Sunday, 9/25/22, by the Right Reverend Dr. Ian T. Douglas, Bishop of the Episcopal Church in Connecticut. Recorded at Trinity Episcopal Church in Southport, Connecticut, the Rev. Peggy Hodgkins, Rector.  Information about Trinity can be found at trinitysouthport.org.The Gospel for today is Luke 16:19-31:Jesus said, "There was a rich man who was dressed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day. And at his gate lay a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, who longed to satisfy his hunger with what fell from the rich man's table; even the dogs would come and lick his sores. The poor man died and was carried away by the angels to be with Abraham. The rich man also died and was buried. In Hades, where he was being tormented, he looked up and saw Abraham far away with Lazarus by his side. He called out, `Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue; for I am in agony in these flames.' But Abraham said, `Child, remember that during your lifetime you received your good things, and Lazarus in like manner evil things; but now he is comforted here, and you are in agony. Besides all this, between you and us a great chasm has been fixed, so that those who might want to pass from here to you cannot do so, and no one can cross from there to us.' He said, `Then, father, I beg you to send him to my father's house-- for I have five brothers-- that he may warn them, so that they will not also come into this place of torment.' Abraham replied, `They have Moses and the prophets; they should listen to them.' He said, `No, father Abraham; but if someone goes to them from the dead, they will repent.' He said to him, `If they do not listen to Moses and the prophets, neither will they be convinced even if someone rises from the dead.'"

This is the sermon for Sunday, 9/11/22, recorded at Trinity Episcopal Church in Southport, Connecticut, the Rev. Peggy Hodgkins, Rector.  Information about Trinity can be found at trinitysouthport.org.The Gospel for today is Luke 16:1-13:Jesus said to the disciples, "There was a rich man who had a manager, and charges were brought to him that this man was squandering his property. So he summoned him and said to him, `What is this that I hear about you? Give me an accounting of your management, because you cannot be my manager any longer.' Then the manager said to himself, `What will I do, now that my master is taking the position away from me? I am not strong enough to dig, and I am ashamed to beg. I have decided what to do so that, when I am dismissed as manager, people may welcome me into their homes.' So, summoning his master's debtors one by one, he asked the first, `How much do you owe my master?' He answered, `A hundred jugs of olive oil.' He said to him, `Take your bill, sit down quickly, and make it fifty.' Then he asked another, `And how much do you owe?' He replied, `A hundred containers of wheat.' He said to him, `Take your bill and make it eighty.' And his master commended the dishonest manager because he had acted shrewdly; for the children of this age are more shrewd in dealing with their own generation than are the children of light. And I tell you, make friends for yourselves by means of dishonest wealth so that when it is gone, they may welcome you into the eternal homes. "Whoever is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much; and whoever is dishonest in a very little is dishonest also in much. If then you have not been faithful with the dishonest wealth, who will entrust to you the true riches? And if you have not been faithful with what belongs to another, who will give you what is your own? No slave can serve two masters; for a slave will either hate the one and love the other,  or be devoted to the one and despise the other.You cannot serve God and wealth."

This is the sermon for Sunday, 9/11/22, recorded at Trinity Episcopal Church in Southport, Connecticut, the Rev. Peggy Hodgkins, Rector.  Information about Trinity can be found at trinitysouthport.org.The Gospel for today is Luke  15:1-10All the tax collectors and sinners were coming near to listen to Jesus. And the Pharisees and the scribes were grumbling and saying, "This fellow welcomes sinners and eats with them."So he told them this parable: "Which one of you, having a hundred sheep and losing one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness and go after the one that is lost until he finds it? When he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders and rejoices. And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and neighbors, saying to them, `Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep that was lost.' Just so, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance."Or what woman having ten silver coins, if she loses one of them, does not light a lamp, sweep the house, and search carefully until she finds it? When she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors, saying, `Rejoice with me, for I have found the coin that I had lost.' Just so, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents."

This is the sermon for Sunday, 8/28/22, recorded at Trinity Episcopal Church in Southport, Connecticut.  Information about Trinity can be found at trinitysouthport.org.The Gospel for today is Luke  14:25-33Now large crowds were traveling with Jesus; and he turned and said to them, "Whoever comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and even life itself, cannot be my disciple. Whoever does not carry the cross and follow me cannot be my disciple. For which of you, intending to build a tower, does not first sit down and estimate the cost, to see whether he has enough to complete it? Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish, all who see it will begin to ridicule him, saying, `This fellow began to build and was not able to finish.' Or what king, going out to wage war against another king, will not sit down first and consider whether he is able with ten thousand to oppose the one who comes against him with twenty thousand? If he cannot, then, while the other is still far away, he sends a delegation and asks for the terms of peace. So therefore, none of you can become my disciple if you do not give up all your possessions."

This is the sermon for Sunday, 8/28/22, recorded at Trinity Episcopal Church in Southport, Connecticut. The Gospel for today is Luke 14:1, 7-14:On one occasion when Jesus was going to the house of a leader of the Pharisees to eat a meal on the sabbath, they were watching him closely. When he noticed how the guests chose the places of honor, he told them a parable. "When you are invited by someone to a wedding banquet, do not sit down at the place of honor, in case someone more distinguished than you has been invited by your host; and the host who invited both of you may come and say to you, `Give this person your place,' and then in disgrace you would start to take the lowest place. But when you are invited, go and sit down at the lowest place, so that when your host comes, he may say to you, `Friend, move up higher'; then you will be honored in the presence of all who sit at the table with you. For all who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted."He said also to the one who had invited him, "When you give a luncheon or a dinner, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors, in case they may invite you in return, and you would be repaid.But when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, and the blind. And you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you, for you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous."

This is the sermon for Sunday, 8/21/22, recorded at Trinity Episcopal Church in Southport, Connecticut. Information about Trinity can be found at trinitysouthport.org. The Rev. Margaret Hodgkins, Rector. Rev. Hodgkins will be on sabbatical until 8/23/22. 

This is the sermon for Sunday, 8/14/22, recorded at Trinity Episcopal Church in Southport, Connecticut. Information about Trinity can be found at trinitysouthport.org. The Rev. Margaret Hodgkins, Rector. Rev. Hodgkins will be on sabbatical until 8/23/22. 

This is the sermon for Sunday, 8/7/22, recorded at Trinity Episcopal Church in Southport, Connecticut. Information about Trinity can be found at trinitysouthport.org. The Rev. Margaret Hodgkins, Rector. Rev. Hodgkins will be on sabbatical until 8/23/22. 

This is the sermon for Sunday, 7/31/22, recorded at Trinity Episcopal Church in Southport, Connecticut. Information about Trinity can be found at trinitysouthport.org. The Rev. Margaret Hodgkins, Rector. Rev. Hodgkins will be on sabbatical until 8/23/22. 

This is the sermon for Sunday, 7/24/22, recorded at Trinity Episcopal Church in Southport, Connecticut. Information about Trinity can be found at trinitysouthport.org. The Rev. Margaret Hodgkins, Rector. Rev. Hodgkins will be on sabbatical until 8/23/22. 

This is the sermon for Sunday, 7/17/22, recorded at Trinity Episcopal Church in Southport, Connecticut. Information about Trinity can be found at trinitysouthport.org. The Rev. Margaret Hodgkins, Rector. Rev. Hodgkins will be on sabbatical until 8/23/22. 

This is the sermon for Sunday, 7/10/22, recorded at Trinity Episcopal Church in Southport, Connecticut. Information about Trinity can be found at trinitysouthport.org. The Rev. Margaret Hodgkins, Rector. Rev. Hodgkins will be on sabbatical until 8/23/22. 

This is the sermon for Sunday, 7/3/22, recorded at Trinity Episcopal Church in Southport, Connecticut. Information about Trinity can be found at trinitysouthport.org. The Rev. Margaret Hodgkins, Rector. Rev. Hodgkins will be on sabbatical until 8/23/22. 

This is the sermon for Sunday, 6/26/22, recorded at Trinity Episcopal Church in Southport, Connecticut. Information about Trinity can be found at trinitysouthport.org. The Rev. Margaret Hodgkins, Rector. Rev. Hodgkins will be on sabbatical until 8/23/22.