Year: 2019

“It’s an important reminder that going to church is meant to be joyful and lifegiving. It’s meant to be a place to go to let go of the rush and stress of the days. It’s a place to meet friends and be in community. It’s a place to rest at the feet of Jesus. It’s the place to receive tiny bits of bread and wine trusting God to transform the tiny pieces into an abundance. It’s a place to ask hard questions. It’s a place to be known.”

“The early Church had little to go on except the letters of Paul and the memory of the Apostles and first disciples, and the practice of the Eucharist and Baptism by water and the Holy Spirit. For that first Church it probably didn’t matter so much how they saw the Incarnate One. They worshiped the one Holy One in Jesus’ name as instructed, practiced charity as instructed, and developed methods of creating social and religious bonds amongst each other by praying together and eating together.”

“Here’s the gospel in the Trinity: God speaks of Godself as an individual, “I am…” God says. God the Father says it, God the Son says it, God the Holy Spirit says it. That is part of the Trinity, or the inner life of God. God is also present to the other members of the divine collective. God the Father is, God the Son is, and God the Holy Spirit is.”

“Paul informs us we are ambassadors of Christ…  As ambassadors of Christ, we are charged to convey the message of love and forgiveness, peace and equality, care for the earth and its people in all its diversity. It’s a message the world sorely needs to hear now, just as it has been for millennia, and we are the ones charged with spreading it.”