Sermon: Third Sunday in Lent

Students and teachers of St. Luke's School, Martel, Haiti

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Listen to the sermon preached by the Rev. Sam Owen, priest-in-charge at the Haitian Episcopal Church of the Good Samaritan and director of the NY Haiti Project, on the Third Sunday in Lent, March 3, 2024.

      Sermon - Lent III 2024 - The Rev. Sam Owen

Lessons

You can read the scriptures for this service here: Exodus 20:1-17; Psalm 19; 1 Corinthians 1:18-25; John 2:13-22.


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