The Rev Alissa: Sermons

The Rev. Canon Alissa Newton

A place to listen to sermons preached wherever I go as Canon to the Ordinary in the Episcopal Diocese of New York.

  1. Mar 22

    The Fifth Sunday of Lent: How Do We Live?

    Send us Fan Mail "The real question is how do we live, knowing that grief, death, and loss are part of the story? text: John 11:1-45 preached for Church of the Resurrection, Hopewell Junction, NY

    8 min
  2. The First Sunday in Lent: The Temptation to Stop Being Human

    Feb 22

    The First Sunday in Lent: The Temptation to Stop Being Human

    Send us Fan Mail "The question before us is not what we will give up, but what kind of human being we will choose to be." text:Matthew 4:1-11 preached with All Saints Episcopal Church, Manhattan on February 22, 2026

    11 min
  3. The Fifth SundayAfter the Epiphany: What We Were Made For

    Feb 8

    The Fifth SundayAfter the Epiphany: What We Were Made For

    Send us Fan Mail "What is so interesting to me in this is that surrounded by needs, and wants and longings, Jesus looks at his weird and wonderful congregation and doesn’t tell them to get something, or to become something or to do something – he tells them who, in his view, they already are. " Text: Matthew 5:13-20, Isaiah 58:1-9a, [9b-12] Preached with The Chapel of St. John the Divine, Tomkins Cove, NY

    12 min
  4. The Fourth Sunday After Epiphany: Attention

    Feb 1

    The Fourth Sunday After Epiphany: Attention

    Send us Fan Mail "We cannot expect our religion to save us if we do not remember our relationship with God and take seriously God’s desire for justice." Text: Micah 6:1-8, Matthew 5:1-12 preached for St Ignatius of Antioch, Manhattan, on Feb 1, 2026

    14 min
  5. The First Sunday of Advent: The Mystery Box

    11/30/2025

    The First Sunday of Advent: The Mystery Box

    Send us Fan Mail "There are things that we will never know. That can be discouraging, but it can also be motivating... I don't love it. I don't love this idea that we will never know. But this is how we begin our Advent season: in the strangeness, and the darkness, and just the straight up honesty that there are things we will never know." Text: Matthew 24:36-44 Preached at All Saints, Manhattan on November 30, 2025

    11 min

  6. 11/23/2025

    Christ the King: Power Struggle

    Send us Fan Mail "We submit to God’s power by refusing to harm each other. We obey God’s power by rejecting the pressures of our world to punish, to win, or to control any part of God’s created world." text: Luke 23:33-43 preached at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, Pearl River, NY on Christ the King Sunday.

    13 min

  7. 04/18/2025

    Good Friday Personalities of the Passion: Mother of an Exceptional Child

    Send us Fan Mail "We meet the mother of Jesus in this gospel not when she gives birth to his physical body, but when she gives birth to his ministry, at the wedding in Cana. The first time we see Jesus mother in John is at the beginning of the second chapter – “on the third day there was a wedding in Cana at Galilee and the mother of Jesus was there.”' text: Gospel of John, in particular chapter 2 and chapter 19 preached at Grace Church Manhattan for Good Friday

    19 min

  8. 04/18/2025

    Maundy Thursday: The Banquet of Love

    Send us Fan Mail " In this last night with his disciples before his big showdown with the Empire Jesus does not tease them, or intimidate them, or reassure them with a show of strength, or sign of power. Instead God incarnate puts a towel around his waist and serves them. And when he done scandalizing his friends with this act, he commands them to do the same, to love one another." text: John 13:1-17, 31b-35 Preached at Church of the Heavenly Rest, Manhattan, New York on Maundy Thursday

    13 min
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A place to listen to sermons preached wherever I go as Canon to the Ordinary in the Episcopal Diocese of New York.

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  • Creator
    The Rev. Canon Alissa Newton
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2026
  • Episodes
    50
  • Rating
    Explicit
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    © 2026 The Rev Alissa: Sermons
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