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The Willcocks Chord
This sermon was preached on December 28, 2025, being the First Sunday after Christmas Day, at the 9:00am Rite II Eucharist at Saint Mark’s Episcopal Church (Lappans) in Boonsboro, Maryland. Readings: Isa. 61.10—62.3; Ps. 147.13-21; Gal. 3.23-25; 4.4-7; Jn. 1.1-18 Collect of the Day: “Almighty God, you have poured upon us the new light of Continue reading
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Ponderings of the Heart
This sermon was preached on December 24, 2025, being the Eve of the Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, at the 5:00pm Rite II Christmas Eve Mass at Saint Mark’s Episcopal Church (Lappans) in Boonsboro, Maryland and the 11:00pm Christmas Eve Mass at the Chapel of Saint James of Jerusalem at Saint James School in Continue reading
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The Letter vs. the Spirit of Righteousness
This sermon was preached on December 21, 2025, being the Fourth Sunday of Advent, at the 9:00am Rite I Eucharist at Saint Mark’s Episcopal Church (Lappans) in Boonsboro, Maryland. Readings: Isaiah 7.10-16; Psalm 80.1-7, 16-18; Romans 1.1-7; Matthew 1.18-25 Collect of the Day: We beseech thee, Almighty God, to purify our consciences by thy daily Continue reading
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“How Firm a Foundation”
The following homily was preached on July 30, 2023, being the Feast of the 174th Anniversary of the Consecration of St. Mark’s Episcopal Church (Lappans Road), Boonsboro, Maryland at its 9:00am Rite I Eucharist. Collect of the Day: “O Almighty God, to whose glory we celebrate the dedication of this house of prayer: We give Continue reading
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“The Continuing Easter Story”
The following homily was preached on May 21, 2023, being the Seventh Sunday of Easter: The Sunday after Ascension Day, at the 9:00am Rite II Eucharist at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church (Lappans Road), Boonsboro, Maryland. Readings: Acts 1:6-14; Psalm 68:1-10, 33-36; 1 Peter 4:12-14; 5:6-11; John 17:1-11 Collect of the Day: “O God, the King of Continue reading
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“The Lamp of God”
The following sermon was preached for the Ascension Episcopal School 2018-2019 Opening Faculty Eucharist at the Episcopal Church of the Ascension in Lafayette, Louisiana on August 3, 2018, being the Feast of George Freeman Bragg, Jr. (Priest, 1940) Collect: O eternal God, bless Ascension Episcopal School, that it may be a lively center for sound Continue reading
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“Anamnesis” (April 13, 2017: Maundy Thursday)
The following sermon was preached on April 13, 2017, being Maundy Thursday, at the Episcopal Church of the Ascension in Lafayette, Louisiana. Readings: Exodus 12.1-4, (5-10), 11-14; Psalm 116.1, 10-17; 1 Corinthians 11.23-26; John 13.1-17, 31b-35 Collect: Almighty Father, whose dear Son, on the night before He suffered, instituted the Sacrament of His Body and Blood: Continue reading
About BRANDT
The Rev. Dr. Brandt Montgomery is the Chaplain of Saint James School in Hagerstown, Maryland and Vicar of Saint Mark’s Episcopal Church in Boonsboro, Maryland, having previously served at the Episcopal Church of the Ascension in Lafayette, Louisiana as Chaplain of Ascension Episcopal School from 2014-2017, then as Associate Rector and All-School Chaplain from 2017-2019. From 2012-2014, Fr. Montgomery was the Curate at Canterbury Episcopal Chapel and Student Center at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, his first parochial appointment following his ordination by the Bishop of Alabama.
Fr. Montgomery received a Bachelor of Arts in Music, specializing in Trumpet Performance, from the University of Montevallo in Montevallo, Alabama in 2007. He received the Master of Divinity (cum laude) in 2012 from The General Theological Seminary in New York City, for which he wrote the thesis “Time’s Prisoner: The Right Reverend Charles Colcock Jones Carpenter and the Civil Rights Movement in the Episcopal Diocese of Alabama.” In 2021, Fr. Montgomery received the Doctor of Ministry degree from the School of Theology at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, his thesis titled “The Development of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Saint James School of Maryland.”
Fr. Montgomery’s scholarly interests lie in the areas of American religious history, Episcopal Church history, the Oxford Movement and Anglo-Catholicism, the Civil Rights Movement, and practical theology.
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