Saint Mark's Episcopal Church Burlington

06/09/2026

06/09/2026

⚡TOMORROW: It's our Clean Energy Lunch Hour: Why Battery Storage Matters

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06/07/2026

Welcome to our Morning Prayer Service for the Second Sunday after Pentecost, on June 7th, 2026.

06/04/2026

TRANSITIONS

June is a month which I have historically thought of as a month which includes many transitional events.

Graduations from high school, college, and graduate school programs, more often than not being described by speakers as a “Commencement,” because it is a time of new beginnings.

Marriages and other forms of people making a commitment to one another, also with an emphasis on the formation of a new household and looking towards the future.

In addition to those events, it is the month when the Church ordains people to be deacons, again with the focus on what is to come as the person begins the work of ordained ministry.

What they all have in common is choosing to be committed to a pathway which is expected to have a lasting impact on one’s life. That is certainly a good and hopeful thing.

However, taking such steps in life are also moments to be grateful for the people in our lives whose impact along the way make those moments possible.

Congratulations to all who are celebrating such “commencements” this particular year.

—Stephen

06/02/2026

Happy Pride! You are God’s beloved!

06/02/2026

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06/02/2026

Hello amazing community members and supporters!

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05/31/2026

Welcome to our service on the First Sunday after Pentecost, led by Rev. Stephen O. Voysey

05/28/2026

THREE IN ONE

In the earliest years, the followers in the Way of Jesus (long before they were called “Christians”) faced a dilemma.

On the one hand, they knew that the Lord God is one God. Unlike the gods of the Greeks or the Romans, they knew that God is in essence One.

On the other hand, they had experienced their Teacher as speaking and acting with a kind of authority they had never experienced before. They had experienced the Risen Christ whose appearances among them after Resurrection proclaimed his divinity. And they were experiencing the ongoing presence of the divine when they took counsel for the faithful in Jesus’ name.

They struggled with two apparently inconsistent realities. God is One, the source of all. And at the same time, God is being experienced in the gifts of the Risen Christ and of the Holy Spirit.

At first, they apparently simply lived with the ambiguity and focused on sustaining the community of the faithful. The earliest use of trinitarian language we know of comes from the mid-second century. It was not until the fourth century that a credal affirmation of a doctrine of the Trinity emerged (it is called “The Creed of St. Athanasius” and is in the prayer book on page 864). It struggles mightily to resolve the problem intellectually but unsurprisingly does not satisfy.

This coming Sunday is named “Trinity Sunday” and is meant to celebrate a doctrine about the nature of God which does not compute intellectually.

I would suggest that what we are asked to give thanks for is the love of God which we experience in creation, and in redemption which returns us to life-giving pathways (again and again), and in the sustaining presence of the Holy Spirit all the days of our lives.

God is One. God is experienced in three ways which are essential to our lives. God is One. And I’m not going to worry about just how those things are possible. They just are.

—Stephen

05/24/2026

Welcome to the Day Of Pentecost