Salvation
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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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“Jesus Christ, King of the Universe” (November 20, 2016: Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe–Year C)
This sermon was preached at the 8:30am, 11:00am, and 6:00pm services on November 20, 2016, being the Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe, at the Episcopal Church of the Ascension in Lafayette, Louisiana. Collect: Almighty and everlasting God, whose will it is to restore all things in Your well-beloved Son, the Continue reading
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“Chandler the Reverse Theologian” (September 14, 2016: Holy Cross Day)
The full text of the sermon below was preached at the Wednesday 6:00pm Healing Eucharist on September 14, 2016, being the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, at the Episcopal Church of the Ascension in Lafayette, Louisiana. An abridged version was preached earlier that day at the bi-weekly campus Eucharist at the Sugar Mill Pond Continue reading
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“Death and Conception As One” (March 25, 2016: Good Friday)
The following sermon was preached during the Good Friday Liturgy on March 25, 2016 at the Episcopal Church of the Ascension in Lafayette, Louisiana. Collect: Almighty God, we pray you graciously to behold this your family, for whom our Lord Jesus Christ was willing to be betrayed, and given into the hands of sinners, and to suffer 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.
THE ANGLO-CATHOLIC GENTLEMAN 