Sermon: Seventh Sunday after Pentecost

Sermon: Seventh Sunday after Pentecost

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Listen to the sermon preached by Elizabeth Adams on the Seventh Sunday after Pentecost, July 12, 2026.

      Sermon - Pentecost VII 2026 - Elizabeth Adams

Lessons

You can read the scriptures for this service here: Genesis 25:19-34; Psalm 119:105-112; Romans 8:1-11; Matthew 13:1-9,18-23.

Elizabeth Adams is a postulant for the priesthood in the Diocese of New York sponsored by Ascension and we were delighted to hear her preaching this past Sunday. On July 19, she will lead a forum discussion about her vocational plans. Please keep her in your prayers as she departs for Yale Divinity School at the beginning of August.

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