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Hope Comes: Advent III

Ninth Bishop of Texas

Release Date: 12/20/2019

Sermon preached at the American Memorial Cemetery in Normandy. show art Sermon preached at the American Memorial Cemetery in Normandy.

Ninth Bishop of Texas

Listen to Bishop Doyle's sermon preached at the American Memorial Cemetery in Normandy. More at www.texasbishop.com

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All Saints' Day show art All Saints' Day

Ninth Bishop of Texas

Listen to Bishop Doyle's sermon, "All Saints' Day" held at Episcopal Church of the Epiphany, Houston, TX More at www.texasbishop.com

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Ninth Bishop of Texas

Listen to Bishop Doyle's sermon, "25B A Bartimaeus Theory" held at Saint Joan of Arc Episcopal Church, Pflugerville, TX More at www.texasbishop.com

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It's A Table show art It's A Table

Ninth Bishop of Texas

Listen to Bishop Doyle's sermon, "It's A Table" held at St. Julian of Norwich Episcopal Church, Cedar Park, TX More at www.texasbishop.com

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Ninth Bishop of Texas

Listen to Bishop Doyle's sermon for the Rev. Carl S. Shannon, Jr., held at Emmanuel Episcopal Church, Houston, TX More at www.texasbishop.com

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It Isn't About The Brothers show art It Isn't About The Brothers

Ninth Bishop of Texas

Listen to Bishop Doyle's sermon, "It Isn't About The Brothers" preached at Trinity Episcopal Church, Houston, TX. More at www.texasbishop.com

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Peace show art Peace

Ninth Bishop of Texas

Listen to Bishop Doyle's sermon, "Peace" preached at St. John's Episcopal Church, TX. More at www.texasbishop.com

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2B - En español show art 2B - En español

Ninth Bishop of Texas

Listen to Bishop Doyle's sermon, "2B - En español" preached at San Francisco de Asis, Episcopal Church, Austin, TX. More at www.texasbishop.com

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Ninth Bishop of Texas

Listen to Bishop Doyle's sermon, "The Not-So-Secret Santa" preached at Trinity Episcopal Church, Marble Falls, TX. More at www.texasbishop.com

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A God of Mercy. A People of Mercy show art A God of Mercy. A People of Mercy

Ninth Bishop of Texas

Listen to Bishop Doyle's sermon, "A God of Mercy. A People of Mercy" preached at St. Mark's, Bay City, TX. More at www.texasbishop.com

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The Christ-child breaks in. Hope breaks in.

For even those who have their wages stolen, their dignity taken away, their lights and heat turned off, the evicted, the homeless, the poor, the rejected, the tormented - hope comes. Hope will come.

It is our presence as Christians in the lives of others that is the present-day icon of Christ’s love in the world.  Today when we sit around hearth and home around our own common tables, or as we gather in warm churches and sing, or as we serve the poor, give blankets, sit with the sick and the dying, as we visit the lonely, or when we calm the fear of the anxious or reassure the depressed of God’s love for them and our love for them, when we give to those who cannot repay, those with no recompense - we are the hope that comes.

In fact, in serving, in making humanity our business, we find that they, those to whom we are sent, those to whom we go - that they represent Christ to us.

The season is the opportunity to enact the community that God imagines.