Yes, Peter, you see that I am the Christ/Messiah, but you don’t understand what that means. It doesn’t mean turn away from a hard choice, even death on the Cross, if it is my Father’s will.
Many years ago, in a small Episcopal mission church, we celebrated Shrove Tuesday with pancakes, fresh deep fried donuts, games, and general silliness, until about
Without hearing the Spirit, even for those bound in Baptism, the worst of human nature can overtake us.
February 2 is a busy day, a major feast of the church, although not always celebrated. The Presentation of Jesus at the Temple. The Purification of Mary. Candlemas.
Stability, obedience, conversion mean so much to me in my growth in Christ that I would be remiss not to hold them out to you. In these quiet weeks before Lent try exploring a spiritual rule, a guide, not a straitjacket.
We have seen great strides in Ecumenical reconciliation. More and more bits and pieces are recognizing each other’s sacramental theology and liturgical forms. More important, we are standing together for human rights, for the protection of the Earth, and against injustice toward people of other beliefs or customs.
In the early days of the American Episcopal Church, there weren’t a lot of bishops, so confirmation was a dead issue. It wobbled along both here and in England until the mid nineteenth century when a number of bishops picked it up enthusiastically.
Christmastide is never over. We carry the Light of Christ in our incarnate and complex lives, lives of betrayal, flight, fear, but also of faith that the Light will overcome the dark, always.
… the next day, this year a Monday, a feast day. The Holy Name of Jesus. Also known as the Circumcision of Jesus.
And yet we sit by the crib of the newborn Savior of the world.