Luke 9:57-62 Psalm 121 Galatians 6:14-18 Good morning – and Happy St. Francis of Assisi Day. While it’s true that in the Congregational Church, we do not venerate the saints, we have, nonetheless, certainly heard about them. We read many Bible passages whose writers are considered saints, and one saint who many people have heard of is St. Francis of Assisi, the friar in the brown robes, always pictured surrounded by birds and animals. Francis was an amazing character,

Exodus 16:2-15 Matthew 20: 1-16 The whole congregation of the Israelites complained against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness. The Children of Israel have participated in an amazing exodus by which God took them away from the slave society of Egypt; and despite all odds, they have escaped from the control of Pharaoh. The breathtaking experience at the Red Sea is still fresh in their minds - how, with the Egyptian chariots in hot pursuit, they saw the waters part to

May I never boast of anything except the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world. The words of St. Paul to the Galatians. Many of you probably know that while most Protestant churches do not have religious orders, the Episcopal Church does. Two of these order were established by the same founder, are the brothers of the Order of the Holy Cross, and the Sisters of the Order St. Helena. They share a common motto, a sente