It is you who have scattered my flock and have driven them away, and you have not attended to them. So I will attend to you for your evil doings, says the LORD. Jeremiah has been speaking out trying to save the people, but the leaders of Israel have not been listening. It was a time for the people to repent their…
A Christian Unitarian Church Serving Newton, Brookline, and the Boston Area since 1861
Sunday Service at 10:30am
Rev. Mark J.T. Caggiano
26 Suffolk Road
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Sermons by Rev. Mark J.T. Caggiano (Page 3)
…He wrote the famous German-American theologian Reinhold Neibuhr in 1939: I have come to the conclusion that I made a mistake in coming to America…I must live through this difficult period in our national history along with the people of Germany. I will have no right to participate in the reconstruction of Christian life in Germany after the war if I do…
This Sunday, I wanted to talk about a historical figure, a poet. A man you might have heard of but probably did not know much about. His name was Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī but he is more commonly known as simply Rumi, which means a man from the city of Rum (or Rome). This could mean a Roman, but in this case,…
“All Shall Be well,” by Rev. Dr. Mark Caggiano, 9/28/25 Jeremiah 32:1-3a, 6-15; Luke 16:19-31 “All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well.” This line might be familiar to you. It is attributed to Julian of Norwich, a 14th century English woman who was a mystic and anchoress. An anchoress, or anchorite, was…
“The Seven Storey Mountain,” Rev. Dr. Mark Caggiano 9/7/25 Jeremiah 18:1-11; Luke 14:25-33 The vessel he was making of clay was spoiled in the potter’s hand, and he reworked it into another vessel, as seemed good to him. The prophet Jeremiah is using a metaphor to explain what is going on, how God is working through the lives of the people of…
June 1, 2025 Acts 16:16-34; John 17:20-26 Righteous Father, the world does not know you, but I know you, and these know that you have sent me. I made your name known to them, and I will make it known, so that the love with which you have loved me may be in them and I in them. This is an interesting…
May 4, 2025 Acts 9:1-6; John 21:1-19 He fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?” Saul was returning from obtaining letters from the high priest in Jerusalem permitting him to extend the persecution of Jesus’ followers. But along the way back to Damascus, he was struck down by a sudden overwhelming…
April 13, 2024 Luke 19:28-40 Some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to him, “Teacher, order your disciples to stop.” He answered, “I tell you, if these were silent, the stones would shout out.” This Sunday is Palm Sunday. We heard about the triumphal entry into Jerusalem. We heard about Jesus riding a colt into the gates. But I feel compelled…
April 6, 2025 Isaiah 43:16-21; John 12:1-8 Do not remember the former things, or consider the things of old. I am about to do a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? In our reading, something new is about to happen, something will change. The old things should not be remembered, the former things forgotten. The Book of…
March 15, 2025 Luke 1:26-38 Mary said to the angel, “How can this be, since I am a virgin?” When you heard this reading this morning, perhaps you thought to yourselves, why exactly are we listening to a Christmas reading? Mary hearing about her pending and unexpected pregnancy. But there is a reason. We are in the month of April. Count nine…