Sermon: Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost

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Listen to the sermon preached by the Rev. Canon Sam Owen on the Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost, October 26, 2025.

      Sermon - Pentecost XX 2025 - The Rev. Canon Sam Owen

Lessons

You can read the scriptures for this service here: Joel 2:23-32; Psalm 65; 2 Timothy 4:6-8,16-18; Luke 18:9-14.

The image above is a detail of a painting, “The Pharisee and the Publican,” made in 1661 by Barent Fabritius (1624-1673), which is part of the collection of the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam.


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