A year ago when Catherine won the John Hines award, there was a requirement to preach at Virginia Theological which she did on Feb. 11, 2014 at the noon service. Unfortunately, they had forgotten she was scheduled that day and were not prepared for honoring her afterwards!
Read the entire sermon here. which was based on the following scriptures – I Kings 8:22-23, 27-30 , Ps 84, Mark 7:1-13
"…Jesus had no patience with the Pharisees in today’s gospel. He called them hypocrites, because these judgmental Pharisees had become caught up in human tradition, and in the process of honoring and enforcing their traditions, their hearts had wandered far from God.
Jesus told them that their worship was in vain, not because of their attention to tradition, or even their love for their tradition, but because they had replaced God with their traditions.
Part of becoming a good priest and part of seminary study is to learn about and to apply the traditions of our particular Anglican culture in our worship, part of our service to God in this part of the Church.
But beware! Traditions can too easily become an end in themselves, like the pure gold with which Solomon lined the interior of the house of the Lord."