Proper 15A: Genesis 45:1-15; Psalm 133 Romans 11:1-2a, 29-32; Matthew 15:21-28 The Rev'd Cameron Partridge August 16, 2026 Good Morning, St. Aidan’s. Last week we heard the first part of the saga of Joseph. He was, you may recall, the twelfth of Israel’s thirteen children, eleventh of his twelve sons, first of the two sons who born to his father’s favored wife Rachel. Because he was his mother’s son, in childhood he was favored, spared harder tasks. He was known to “give il

Proper 14A: Genesis 37:1-4, 12-28; Psalm 105:1-6, 16-22, 45b Romans 10:5-15; Matthew 14:22-33 The Rev'd Cameron Partridge August 9, 2026 Good Morning, St. Aidan’s. When I was a Junior in high school a significant portion of the year in my English class was dedicated to reading various sections of the Bible – particularly the Hebrew Bible, but also the New Testament. My school was secular and we read the Bible critically, as literature. It was in this class that I can first

Proper 13A: Genesis 32:22-31; Psalm 17:1-7,16 Romans 9:1-5; Matthew 14:13-21 The Rev'd Stephen Siptroth August 2, 2026

Proper 12A: Genesis 29:15-28; Psalm 105:1-11, 45b Romans 8:26-39; Matthew 13:31-33, 44-52 The Rev'd Cameron Partridge July 26, 2026 Good Morning, St. Aidan’s. Several years ago in the depths of the pandemic, I watched a movie called The Dig.[1] It tells a story of events that took place in 1939. A woman named Edith Pretty lived in Suffolk, in the southeast of England. The land on which her home was built had mounds in which she had long taken a keen interest. She had a feel