Sermons

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St. Alfred's is blessed to have attracted a diversity of voices from ordained Episcopal Priests who have retired to the Palm Harbor area and have joined our parish.  ​​​Pictured from left to right are​ the Rev. Dale Hathaway, the Rev. Dr. Doris B. Johnson, the Rev. Peter A. Lane (Rector), the Rev. Larry D. Hooper, and the Rev. Agostino Rivolta. All sermons are recorded within our Worship Services, and those broadcasts are available for up to a year.   Selected sermons are highlighted below.
Rev. Peter A. Lane (Rector)
"You can be transformed each and every day ... [to] that joy of looking for good, looking for love, looking for beauty, and once finding it, to call it out, to celebrate it." The Rev. Peter A. Lane's "Mother's Day" Sermon based on the Gospel of John 14:15-21. St. Alfred's Episcopal Church, Palm Harbor, FL., May 10, 2026. 
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​"Think about how your lives would change ... if we could in that moment of uncertainty and anxiety and closing in on darkness, if we could instead stop and say, 'Lord, I trust you.'"  The Rev. Peter A. Lane's Sermon on the Gospel of Matthew 14:13-21. St. Alfred's Episcopal Church, August 2, 2026.
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​"That is the work of the church: to change us from the inside out into the likeness of Christ ... to go out like those first Apostles did and change the world." The Rev. Peter A. Lane's Sermon on the Gospel of Matthew of 9:35-10:23. St. Alfred's Episcopal Church, Palm Harbor, FL., June 14, 2026. ​