Bishop Susan Goff, Suffragan Bishop of Virginia and assisting Bishop in the Diocese of Liverpool, preached at the ordination of priests at Liverpool Cathedral.
In what ways does the tradition comfort you to the exclusion of the mission?
Our Lenten Journey isn’t over yet, but the time is short. Make final preparations!
Presiding Bishop Michael Curry preaching at Trinity, Wall Street, at the opening of the 2016 Trinity Institute, with a sermon on Matthew 8, the story of the centurion’s servant.
Make this Advent different. Every day, let’s turn our vague intentions into a single, deliberate act of love. God knows and loves us in our fears and foolishness as well as in our courage and goodness.
It is the work of learning to care for one another, to dream together, to sacrifice for the greater good that make a thing worth doing.
So the big question is not if and when we go to God, but how we go to him. Do we go to face heaven’s Judge as indifferent or alienated strangers? Or do we go as faithful children into the arms of our loving Father?
The metrics of charity are often counted out in time, treasure and talent. But before any of that, there is the unmeasured essential… Love… the precious commodity we have been given by God to put to work every day… glorifying him by serving others.
Mark 12: 28-34 We are well into Mark’s gospel. The end of our liturgical year is near. Jesus is in Jerusalem. And his time for
“My own glory is submitting to the violence of this world and exposing it, and you will do that too. That is your destiny.”