Day: February 2, 2020
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What We Call Essential
Have you ever had to see your past from a whole new angle? It happened this morning, in church, to me. “This is a sermon about one of the most popular and well-known verses in the Bible,” said our pastor, introducing the sermon … He has told you, O mortal, what is good; and what […]
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So Much More Than Groundhog Day
Today is a big day. Liturgically, I have learned, it is The Feast of the Presentation [of Jesus in the Temple] – see Luke 2:22-38. A rite of passage, a “once-in-a-lifetime event” in Jesus’s human life. Also known as Candlemas, because apparently there is an old custom of bringing candles to church on this day […]
Matters of Interpretation 