All Recordings from The Episcopal Church of the Redeemer
Apr 27, 2023 |
Thursday, April 26, 2023 Morning Prayer, Rite II
| The Rev. Melanie W. J. SlaneThursday, April 26, 2023 Morning Prayer, Rite II
Join us this morning, Thursday, April 26, for online Morning Prayer led by the Rev.Melanie Slane.
To assist you in following along you may use your Book of Common Prayer (BCP) beginning on page 80. If you do not have a BCP at home, use the buttons below to use the online version or download a pdf version.
Our worship services are all available here and in our Online Worship podcasts. Subscribe now on Apple podcast, Stitcher, and Spotify or ask Alexa, Google, or Siri to play the podcast “The Episcopal Church of the Redeemer Online Worship
To assist you in following along you may use your Book of Common Prayer (BCP) beginning on page 80. If you do not have a BCP at home, use the buttons below to use the online version or download a pdf version.
Our worship services are all available here and in our Online Worship podcasts. Subscribe now on Apple podcast, Stitcher, and Spotify or ask Alexa, Google, or Siri to play the podcast “The Episcopal Church of the Redeemer Online Worship
Apr 26, 2023 |
Wednesday, April 26, 2023, A Devotion for Early Evening
| The Rev. Gary LubinWednesday, April 26, 2023, A Devotion for Early Evening
Join us today, Wednesday, April 26, for a Devotion for Early Evening, led by the Rev. Gary Lubin with special music.
This worship service is available here and through our Online Worship podcasts. Subscribe now on Apple podcast, Stitcher, and Spotify or simply ask your smart speaker to play the podcast “The Episcopal Church of the Redeemer Online Worship."
Apr 25, 2023 |
Tuesday, April 25, 2023 Morning Prayer, Rite II
| Anny Stevens-GleasonTuesday, April 25, 2023 Morning Prayer, Rite II
Join us this morning, Tuesday, April 25, for online Morning Prayer led by Anny Stevens-Gleason.
To assist you in following along you may use your Book of Common Prayer (BCP) beginning on page 80. If you do not have a BCP at home, use the buttons below to use the online version or download a pdf version.
Our worship services are all available here and in our Online Worship podcasts. Subscribe now on Apple podcast, Stitcher, and Spotify or ask Alexa, Google, or Siri to play the podcast “The Episcopal Church of the Redeemer Online Worship
To assist you in following along you may use your Book of Common Prayer (BCP) beginning on page 80. If you do not have a BCP at home, use the buttons below to use the online version or download a pdf version.
Our worship services are all available here and in our Online Worship podcasts. Subscribe now on Apple podcast, Stitcher, and Spotify or ask Alexa, Google, or Siri to play the podcast “The Episcopal Church of the Redeemer Online Worship
Apr 24, 2023 |
The Family Business
| The Rev. Philip DeVaulThe Family Business
I feel like that's a lot of the ways that people see the
family business of Christianity today, of the Church of God's work. It's
something that we think is kind of interesting and cool. So maybe kind of,
well, definitely not cool. No one ever says the church is cool, but sort of
like, you know, interesting and like, oh, this thing that we're a part of, I
know we've got these customs and we're going to get these kids baptized.
It's just a thing that you do. It's part of our family, but that's not the family business that Jesus is about. That is not what it means to be part of God's family to call God Father to call Jesus brother. Jesus, from before the foundations of the world, is destined to love this world and bring healing and reconciliation; to care for this world, to bind up the brokenhearted, to save people, and to liberate people.
And now you are in the family business. If you are baptized, that is now your job too. Baptism isn't just about what happens to you in this little moment or some joyous moment that you forget in the life of the church. It's about the rest of your life. Baptism isn't about where you get to go when you die.
Baptism is about who you are when you live and what you are about. You are about the family business. You are the body of Christ. You. I'm looking at God's daughters and sons right now. And what is Christ's work in the world? To love it deeply from the heart, to change this world, to make it more just and equitable, to create a world that is meaningfully and truthfully and practically better than it was when we got here.
It's just a thing that you do. It's part of our family, but that's not the family business that Jesus is about. That is not what it means to be part of God's family to call God Father to call Jesus brother. Jesus, from before the foundations of the world, is destined to love this world and bring healing and reconciliation; to care for this world, to bind up the brokenhearted, to save people, and to liberate people.
And now you are in the family business. If you are baptized, that is now your job too. Baptism isn't just about what happens to you in this little moment or some joyous moment that you forget in the life of the church. It's about the rest of your life. Baptism isn't about where you get to go when you die.
Baptism is about who you are when you live and what you are about. You are about the family business. You are the body of Christ. You. I'm looking at God's daughters and sons right now. And what is Christ's work in the world? To love it deeply from the heart, to change this world, to make it more just and equitable, to create a world that is meaningfully and truthfully and practically better than it was when we got here.
Apr 23, 2023 |
Sunday, April 23, 2023 Rite II Holy Eucharist with Baptism
| The Rev. Philip DeVaulSunday, April 23, 2023 Rite II Holy Eucharist with Baptism
Join us for worship this Sunday, April 23, Holy Eucharist, Rite II with music. The Rev. Philip DeVaul as Celebrant and Preacher.
Michael Delfin on the organ and the Church of the Redeemer choir.
This worship service is also available live at 9:00 am on Sunday, and as a video following that at https://www.redeemer-cincy.org/online-worship/
Michael Delfin on the organ and the Church of the Redeemer choir.
This worship service is also available live at 9:00 am on Sunday, and as a video following that at https://www.redeemer-cincy.org/online-worship/
Apr 21, 2023 |
Rector's Blog, Unprovable
| The Rev. Philip DeVaulRector's Blog, Unprovable
I have a dear friend from college who belongs to a different religious tradition. Though we believe different things and practice different religions, we’ve always liked each other, in part I think, because we respected that the other took their faith seriously. It’s been over 20 years and we are still talking about our faith with each other, and recently we were talking about the difficulty of being faithful in this hard world. He asked me if there was anything that kept me coming back, and I said, “Well, I mean, I heard God speak.” His response was similar: I love that that happened to you. I wish it would happen to me.
I don’t know why these things have happened to me, and not everyone else. Those who have confessed to similar experiences have been comforting in the moment, but it’s the people who have not had them that rattle me. Because I know these people and I am not better or smarter or stronger or more faithful than them.
What’s more, it’s this sort of inconsistency to which skeptics point when they are saying why they don’t believe: Any person can add 1 to 1 and get 2. Anyone can put water in a freezer and make it into ice. Anyone can recognize life is life and death is death. These things are consistent and reproducible. But you say God spoke to you and nobody else heard it? And you can’t make God speak again by going the same place and doing the same thing? Unprovable. You say you spoke with a deceased relative in a dream? Unreasonable.
It is strange what we feel the need to prove.
When we think about why someone loves us, we feel the need to prove we’ve earned it. We haven’t. You can’t earn love. But we want to prove it just the same.
Apr 20, 2023 |
Thursday, April 20, 2023 Morning Prayer, Rite II
| The Rev. Philip DeVaulThursday, April 20, 2023 Morning Prayer, Rite II
Join us this morning, Thursday, April 20, for online Morning Prayer led by the Rev. Philip DeVaul.
To assist you in following along you may use your Book of Common Prayer (BCP) beginning on page 80. If you do not have a BCP at home, use the buttons below to use the online version or download a pdf version.
Our worship services are all available here and in our Online Worship podcasts. Subscribe now on Apple podcast, Stitcher, and Spotify or ask Alexa, Google, or Siri to play the podcast “The Episcopal Church of the Redeemer Online Worship
To assist you in following along you may use your Book of Common Prayer (BCP) beginning on page 80. If you do not have a BCP at home, use the buttons below to use the online version or download a pdf version.
Our worship services are all available here and in our Online Worship podcasts. Subscribe now on Apple podcast, Stitcher, and Spotify or ask Alexa, Google, or Siri to play the podcast “The Episcopal Church of the Redeemer Online Worship
Apr 19, 2023 |
Wednesday, April 19, 2023, A Devotion for Early Evening
| The Rev. Gary LubinWednesday, April 19, 2023, A Devotion for Early Evening
Join us today, Wednesday, April 19, for a Devotion for Early Evening, led by the Rev. Gary Lubin with special music.
This worship service is available here and through our Online Worship podcasts. Subscribe now on Apple podcast, Stitcher, and Spotify or simply ask your smart speaker to play the podcast “The Episcopal Church of the Redeemer Online Worship."
Apr 18, 2023 |
Tuesday, April 18, 2023 Morning Prayer, Rite II
| Anny Stevens-GleasonTuesday, April 18, 2023 Morning Prayer, Rite II
Join us this morning, Tuesday, April 18, for online Morning Prayer led by Anny Stevens-Gleason.
To assist you in following along you may use your Book of Common Prayer (BCP) beginning on page 80. If you do not have a BCP at home, use the buttons below to use the online version or download a pdf version.
Our worship services are all available here and in our Online Worship podcasts. Subscribe now on Apple podcast, Stitcher, and Spotify or ask Alexa, Google, or Siri to play the podcast “The Episcopal Church of the Redeemer Online Worship
To assist you in following along you may use your Book of Common Prayer (BCP) beginning on page 80. If you do not have a BCP at home, use the buttons below to use the online version or download a pdf version.
Our worship services are all available here and in our Online Worship podcasts. Subscribe now on Apple podcast, Stitcher, and Spotify or ask Alexa, Google, or Siri to play the podcast “The Episcopal Church of the Redeemer Online Worship
Apr 17, 2023 |
Raise Your Expectations
| The Rev. Melanie W. J. SlaneRaise Your Expectations
What we look to as a Christian community is hope and joy.
Hope being the foundation of belief in resurrection. The belief that something
dead and lost and broken can live and be found healed and restored and renewed.
This is not just about being the kind of people who see a glass half full. It's
about pressing forward in desert places, confident that water will be there for
you when you need it most.
Believing in resurrection, it's about being counter-cultural. Not getting swept up in the 24 hour news cycle that obsesses over destruction and violence that promotes rightness over righteousness and upholds a system of punitive retribution rather than restorative justice. Cynicism tells us that people will always choose their own self-interests, but hope tells us that there are those who would lay down their life for one's friends like Jesus did.
We are not talking about a shallow optimism. It's so much bigger than that. What we are talking about is a radical kind of love that insists that we be in reconciled relationship with God and neighbor, and that this sort of reconciliation is the ultimate kind of joy and always to be the thing that we seek.
Believing in resurrection, it's about being counter-cultural. Not getting swept up in the 24 hour news cycle that obsesses over destruction and violence that promotes rightness over righteousness and upholds a system of punitive retribution rather than restorative justice. Cynicism tells us that people will always choose their own self-interests, but hope tells us that there are those who would lay down their life for one's friends like Jesus did.
We are not talking about a shallow optimism. It's so much bigger than that. What we are talking about is a radical kind of love that insists that we be in reconciled relationship with God and neighbor, and that this sort of reconciliation is the ultimate kind of joy and always to be the thing that we seek.
Apr 16, 2023 |
Sunday, April 16, 2023 Rite II Holy Eucharist
| The Rev. Melanie W. J. SlaneSunday, April 16, 2023 Rite II Holy Eucharist
Join us for worship this Sunday, April 16, Holy Eucharist, Rite II with music. The Rev. Philip DeVaul as Celebrant and the Rev. Melanie Slane as Preacher.
Michael Delfin on the organ and the Church of the Redeemer choir.
This worship service is also available live at 9:00 am on Sunday, and as a video following that at https://www.redeemer-cincy.org/online-worship/
Michael Delfin on the organ and the Church of the Redeemer choir.
This worship service is also available live at 9:00 am on Sunday, and as a video following that at https://www.redeemer-cincy.org/online-worship/
Apr 12, 2023 |
Wednesday, April 12, 2023, A Devotion for Early Evening
| The Rev. Gary LubinWednesday, April 12, 2023, A Devotion for Early Evening
Join us today, Wednesday, April 12, for a Devotion for Early Evening, led by the Rev. Gary Lubin with special music.
This worship service is available here and through our Online Worship podcasts. Subscribe now on Apple podcast, Stitcher, and Spotify or simply ask your smart speaker to play the podcast “The Episcopal Church of the Redeemer Online Worship."
Apr 12, 2023 |
Wednesday, April 12, 2023, A Devotion for Early Evening
| The Rev. Gary LubinWednesday, April 12, 2023, A Devotion for Early Evening
Join us today, Wednesday, April 12, for a Devotion for Early Evening, led by the Rev. Gary Lubin with special music.
This worship service is available here and through our Online Worship podcasts. Subscribe now on Apple podcast, Stitcher, and Spotify or simply ask your smart speaker to play the podcast “The Episcopal Church of the Redeemer Online Worship."
Apr 11, 2023 |
Tuesday, April 11, 2023 Daily Devotion
| Anny Stevens-GleasonTuesday, April 11, 2023 Daily Devotion
Join us this morning, Tuesday, April 11, for online Daily Devotion led by Anny Stevens-Gleason.
To assist you in following along you may use your Book of Common Prayer (BCP) beginning on page 80. If you do not have a BCP at home, use the buttons below to use the online version or download a pdf version.
Our worship services are all available here and in our Online Worship podcasts. Subscribe now on Apple podcast, Stitcher, and Spotify or ask Alexa, Google, or Siri to play the podcast “The Episcopal Church of the Redeemer Online Worship
To assist you in following along you may use your Book of Common Prayer (BCP) beginning on page 80. If you do not have a BCP at home, use the buttons below to use the online version or download a pdf version.
Our worship services are all available here and in our Online Worship podcasts. Subscribe now on Apple podcast, Stitcher, and Spotify or ask Alexa, Google, or Siri to play the podcast “The Episcopal Church of the Redeemer Online Worship
Apr 09, 2023 |
Jesus Movement
| The Rev. Philip DeVaulJesus Movement
When that stone rolls away and they see that Jesus is already
gone because he is already alive and out in the world again, doing the work. It
is not just that their friend has been raised up. It is that the movement that
Jesus began is not dead. The movement of creating a world where all people know
that they belong and are beloved. They have a place creating a world where
it's true.
The movement towards that is not dead because Jesus is not dead. They belong. You belong. And I belong because of what Jesus has done and is doing. This world right now, we are in, my goodness, we are in interesting times. The division that we are seeing, the existential dread and the fear, the people in our own culture and in others who on a systemic level are being told they are less than that they do not matter.
The Jesus movement started with a much smaller number of people than this. The movement that terrified an empire and threatened to change the world for love was a much smaller movement than this right here.
The movement towards that is not dead because Jesus is not dead. They belong. You belong. And I belong because of what Jesus has done and is doing. This world right now, we are in, my goodness, we are in interesting times. The division that we are seeing, the existential dread and the fear, the people in our own culture and in others who on a systemic level are being told they are less than that they do not matter.
The Jesus movement started with a much smaller number of people than this. The movement that terrified an empire and threatened to change the world for love was a much smaller movement than this right here.
Apr 07, 2023 |
Rector's Blog, The Phone Call
| The Rev. Philip DeVaulRector's Blog, The Phone Call
When I woke up I felt peace. And then I never told anyone this happened. Because I was not interested in sounding unhinged. And I’m still not interested in that, so I still rarely share this story, and certainly am not sure how I feel about telling you here. I feel compelled to tell you that I do not normally hear voices, claim clairvoyance, or converse with the dead – though I’m not opposed to any of these things. My dad was also neither the first nor the last person I loved who died – though he’s certainly the one to whom I’m the closest. He’s the one I know and love the best.
I find it interesting that there are multiple occasions in Scriptures when mystical, divine things happen in the midst of dreams. It’s like God is deliberately leaving room for plausible deniability. Did Joseph really have those visions of himself as ruler, or was he just being cocky? Did Abraham really enter into a covenant with the Almighty, or was that just a story he told to justify his far-fetched hopes? Did Jacob really wrestle with God or was that just a metaphor for psychological struggle? Did Phil’s dad really call him on that dream phone to say goodbye, or was this just a way to cope with unspeakable grief?
Everyone outside of the dream is free to believe it is a flight of fancy. But in the sacred stories, the dreamer wakes up transformed and convicted.
I find it interesting that there are multiple occasions in Scriptures when mystical, divine things happen in the midst of dreams. It’s like God is deliberately leaving room for plausible deniability. Did Joseph really have those visions of himself as ruler, or was he just being cocky? Did Abraham really enter into a covenant with the Almighty, or was that just a story he told to justify his far-fetched hopes? Did Jacob really wrestle with God or was that just a metaphor for psychological struggle? Did Phil’s dad really call him on that dream phone to say goodbye, or was this just a way to cope with unspeakable grief?
Everyone outside of the dream is free to believe it is a flight of fancy. But in the sacred stories, the dreamer wakes up transformed and convicted.