Sermon delivered to the people of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, Germantown on Luke 1: 46-55 on Sunday, August 14th in celebration of the Feast of Saint Mary. An additional 250 police and paramilitary officers are being brought into the site of the Assumption of Mary in Lourdes, France near the Spanish border. This isContinue reading “Mary’s Song of Faithfulness”
Author Archives: Becca Kello
Becca Kello is an Episcopal priest serving the Diocese of Lexington as Canon Missioner, and is passionate about discipleship, community, and justice.
Welcoming Hope
A sermon on Mark 9:33-37, 42 delivered the volunteers, counselors, and supports of the ministry of City Camp, an urban day camp ministry with the Office of Youth and Family Ministries of the Diocese of Pennsylvania, at their closing Eucharist on July 30, 2016, the feast day of William Wilberforce, at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, Germantown.Continue reading “Welcoming Hope”
That Time I Did That Thing.
My thoughts raced as fast as my nervous eyes as they darted from one bib number to the next. What did I do and why on earth did I think that I could actually do this? Why am I here? Clearly I am not meant for this and everyone knows it; this is theContinue reading “That Time I Did That Thing.”
A Resurrection Peace
Sermon delivered to the people of the Episcopal Church of the Heavenly Rest in Abilene, Texas on the Sixth Sunday of Easter, May 1, 2016. Listen Here My time in the hospital as a chaplain has allowed me many opportunities to sit with people in their last moments. These last moments contain a variety of emotionsContinue reading “A Resurrection Peace”
But Mary Stood Weeping
Sermon on the text of John 20:1-18 delivered during Holy Week, March 23, 2016 to the Abilene Christian University Graduate School of Theology Chapel. There are days in hospital chaplaincy that are smooth and easy; days when God’s presence is obvious and abundant, and days when lives are saved, families reunited, and prayers answered. But there areContinue reading “But Mary Stood Weeping”
There’s a Stirring
There is much stirring about in the denomination of which I was once a part, and with all my heart, I hope it continues to be and becomes a holy stirring towards a more faithful reading of scripture. I have spoken much of my love for my former tradition; that those who raised me, bothContinue reading “There’s a Stirring”
Finding My Voice in Wide Open Spaces
A new friend of mine, Mitch, asked me to write a guest blog on his site, Create Grace, for his Music Changed Me series. At the conference where I met Mitch, I remember walking in and genuinely trying to decide how much of myself and my vocation I would share with these people. After goingContinue reading “Finding My Voice in Wide Open Spaces”
Where is the Hope?
We were all sitting around our curry dishes in an annual birthday celebration, when we noticed that the rain that had been going for days took a turn toward the troubling. The rain fell so thick that seeing even a short distance became impossible, so my friends and I decided to cut ourContinue reading “Where is the Hope?”
Pictures or It Didn’t Happen: Barbara Brown Taylor
Images kept popping up in my mind as I thought about whether we would take a falsely intimate selfie or if we would appear stiff as the strangers we were in photograph captured by another stranger, anxiously awaiting his own 30 seconds with the famous preacher. I knew I would get to meet Barbara Brown TaylorContinue reading “Pictures or It Didn’t Happen: Barbara Brown Taylor”
And I Prayed: A Woman’s First Time
I continue to have firsts in the church; today, I taught my first class. While it doesn’t quite compare to serving Eucharist, it was certainly reminiscent of experiencing that first. Last November, after I prayed and served my first Eucharist, I wrote this reflection of the experience. Today was reminiscent of that experience, because, yetContinue reading “And I Prayed: A Woman’s First Time”
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